Comment by ezst

Trilium works alongside a SQLite DB. It backs-up your db.sqlite on a regular basis, lets you create manual backups, version-controls each and every note with checkpoints, supports full-encryption, and as soon as you set-up sync between clients/servers, you practically end-up with master-master replicas of your entire notes collection (I have my notes replicated at all time on 3 devices or more). All of this are native, supported features and transparent for the end-user (no offloading to a VCS, no scripting, etc).

Trilium also lets you import/export your whole database as folders of markdown files if you are really into that, I just don't see the point: this is free open-source software, there is no vendor lock-in and no reason to dumb-down the storage layer to text files. But to each their own :-)