All of my notes are stored in markdown files (Obsidian), don’t use any other apps. Syncthing to sync between phone and PC.

Ah I see thanks for the info. I was not even aware you can manually run it but I suppose it makes sense.

AFAIK the blocks get marked as “free space” and can be potentially overwritten by new stuff. TRIM guarantees those blocks will be wiped at hardware level. I thought about booting from a live USB but eventually decided to try it out normally.

It was interesting to find out that TRIM runs once a week for me, I thought it runs almost continuously and not periodically? Is this common perhaps someone knows?

Is that so ? I discovered them through arch wiki so had no idea !

File recovery - ArchWiki

One extra thing I forgot to mention was just how easy it was to find this recovery software due to arch wiki.