So nice hearing that from someone else, I went through that exactly.

Where I live we have a bunch of small holidays in the spring. Winter only has the one big one. Spring seems more the season for them

You can always justify it with your curiosity: “I just wanted to see what it was like. It’ll grow back”. This can work on others, but also yourself. A d it’s not even a lie.

Seconding Obsidian - it’s not FOSS, but the files are just markdown, nothing special, so you’re not locked in. Self hosting is real easy, you just have to Sync the files, and everything follows. I use syncthing between my laptop and phone and am having a good time with it.

Hey me too! Reach out if you wanna keep in touch somehow, maybe that’d be nice