Services that rely on local storage are vulnerable to their own data loss scenarios as well as being much less convenient.

If you can use a basic hosting with backup features, you can simply use a $5 droplet to sync almost everything possibly you can think of. Or OneDrive / Google Drive if you are using Windows based applications with databases. It is really not that difficult to keep data safe and backed up.

I mean, yeah, if for some reason you think Google Drive is safer than Google’s purpose-built notes application, that is an option.

As a backup option. Not their entire service. I tend to think heavily encrypted files could be safe there.

Or much more convenient, given that the data is local and almost always available without the vagaries of an internet connection and remote server (except if/when all the bad local data loss scenarios happen at once and you need to restore from your cloud backup).

Maybe your circumstances are different but I find myself without any device capable of getting online at practically no time in a typical day, and in the few scenarios I do, keeping them on one device wouldn’t have helped.

It's so odd that comments like this actually still get made on Hacker News; this is SUCH a solved problem, and yet people still make it likely because it pays someones bills, despite being trivially easy to solve.

Anyway, syncthing, among others.