Markdown files that I edit/search with NVAlt, this is kept in a clound-sync folder (dropbox currently, but whatever). They autosave, and take advantage of the

Markdown files that I edit/search with NVAlt, this is kept in a clound-sync folder (dropbox currently, but whatever). They autosave, and take advantage of the cloud-sync-versions. Easy to grep, totally transparent, fast, portable. I use name metadata for the notes with [broad topic] - [sub topic] - [optional very specific topic] - [optional date]. I'll probably revise this soon, since it doesn't work perfectly. I wrote an automator service to insert an ISO8601 date, which is bound to cmd-|, and I use it a lot. Example notes: + Work - HPC - Module Installation - PLINK GCTA KING - 2017-07-21 + The date is for when i started, but there may be sub-note dates for logged work if it happens later (lets say that the install needs to be fixed, or was broken, and I want to annotate both the discovery and the fix). I will probably change to not put dates in the filenames unless they are time-specific notes. + Work - Meeting - PERIOD GROUPNAME - 2017-07 + These ones i keep one note per month, with dated subsections for each meeting, but am considering keeping one per year (or one period). Performance for really long notes is good. Luckily, merging notes is just a cat redirection away (so easy). + CLI Notes and Snippets For regular use I just use the built-in editor (which is ok, but not great, and has some indent issues). For serious notetaking, I use the built-in hotkey to open the file in sublime (which has much better markdown handling). Full text search makes things easy to find. Sometimes I put a keyword block at the top of the note if I think it will be hard to find/remember. I can use grep if I need to do serious searches. I've been using this method for about a year, and have accumulated 669 note files so far. There are a bunch of other features in NVAlt that I don't use. The ability to paste readable content from a web URL is pretty cool (though I don't use it often).