yeah, every decision has trade offs. for example my husband wanted to use proton drive as a backup for large RAW photos from a full frame camera on our latest trip but the size made proton drive encrypting each one too slow so he gave up so the answer to 'what way is best?' is 'it depends' in every case. 😂

I read an article on Obsidian a while ago when I started writing and self publishing online. as a long long time Linux user having an app that has feature parity across devices was a key point for me. as I read up more on it, I saw that it could do much more than just notes I not use a plugin for saving online articles (it can often grab article text from behind paywals as an added bonus shhh). I use it for to dos as well. you can structure your notes and file history as you like. it'll even do a graph that shows how all your connected notes relate to each other. Obsidian uses plain text files and folders, which in my mind is ideal... no weird file formats so if Obsidian dies I still have all my notes. It has a leaning curve but it's worth it.