Ask HN: Privacy wise, worse to have unencrypted notes on Apple Notes / Evernote?
I don't want to encrypt all my notes, because I'd like to run some programmatic analyses on them by myself, eventually: collecting similar themes, creating word clouds, etc.
From one side, it looks like Apple Notes is a hands-down winner, because they have their own data centers, and have been more public about their hard privacy stance. Evernote uses Google cloud infra, have very few (~10) employees (more easy access to any data they want?).
However, I'm only wary about storing everything on Apple - my photos are already up there in iCloud - my notes as well would mean even more of my personality would be available for analysis by Apple if they choose to - and open to be hacked/handed over.
Is there a choice at all here? I don't like OneNote because the cloud sync is over OneDrive. The best option appears to be Apple Notes + locking every note - and I'll lose the ability to pull them all out with an AppleScript.
Minor inconvenience over all, I can find some other way out of that, even if it means manual copy-pasting hundreds of notes when I want to analyse.
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