Host Your Own Notes with Joplin and DigitalOcean Spaces

Ditch the expensive note apps for a sweet open source alternative, managing your own data and synchronization with S3-compatible storage!
I've tried a lot of them (Evernote, OneNote, Notion, Quip, Obsidian, Standardnotes, all the app store riffraff). Someone posted on LinkedIn recently about Evernote going up to $149.99 a year.
Here's the deal, a good notes app really needs to do a few things well (subjectively):