Because I had to move quickly, and consider my wife uses some of these notes, it was easiest to go to Apple Notes...which is free for both of us versus a lot of the others required paid subscriptions.

That wasn't the case with Joplin, but I think I had to determine whether I was going to self-host or use their cloud...didn't even see if their cloud was a paid option.

I'll revisit soon because Joplin was mentioned by several folks.