Is there a clone of Standard Notes which includes basic plugins for free? I almost think it was a mistake to go with SN for self-hosted notes

notesnook.com

Notesnook is not open source (you cannot self-host it, you must pay them). FWIW, Standard Notes is also very difficult to self host, though if you dig deep enough you can actually find the server and some outdated documentation.

FWIW, I settled on https://github.com/zadam/trilium which is very bare-bones but fully open source and self-hostable.