Web app doesn't sync with account anymore

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Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

3.7.0

What issue do you have?

I got randomly logged out of the web app I think because it was working before and then one day all my notes are gone and it looks like a new account (Default get started notes only show). The settings are NOT clear at all for where I should be checking to login. I have tried the "Manage Profiles" button in the "Tools" section and that is the only term I see in the settings that is even remotely synonymous to "Account/Login" info. And when I clicked on it, there is only a "default" option and clicking it does nothing.

As a side complaint, the settings really need to have a clearer label for the section pertaining to "Account" and "Login" or something adjacent because if it is one of the other tabs I've already tried, that wasn't even clear to me if I am in the tab I want to be in.

Edit: I figured it out. It was the synchronization wizard with auth target. This needs to be labelled better imo... maybe a popup can show up upon first opening the web app (or if it refreshed asking explicitly if I have an account that has notes on another device I want to sync with?).

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Joplin is an offline first app, but with Synchronization being a core feature of the app. So an account is not mandatory, and also one of the synchronization options is file system sync, which does not require an account or authorization of any kind. So labelling the option login / authorize could be misleading in that regard.

Out of interest, what did you think the Synchronize button was for, before you realised it would allow the account login?