I've noticed that discussing and chatting are way more productive forms of writing for me, and I've realized that it's exactly because they discourage excessive

I've noticed that discussing and chatting are way more productive forms of writing for me, and I've realized that it's exactly because they discourage excessive editing. So after thinking about it for a while, I realized that the best way for me to take notes is just to have a chat room with myself, where I write things down as I do stuff or think about stuff. The common pattern is that I start the day by writing something about what I want to do, how I plan to spend the day, maybe some reflections on how I feel about the project's direction... Then during the day I'll put some brief notes, including random ideas that I just want to get out of me... And then at the end of my workday I'll go and reflect what I did and the current status. Then I also have a setup of Org mode documents. One is a general project management file for all the projects in my life (housing, volunteering, work, recipes, etc) and then there are notes files that are more like sprawling personal wikis or (more pretentiously) like very disorganized book drafts where I flesh out my thoughts in a more long term way or in depth way. (About the self-chat, I also use that for writing things like blog posts; I make a first draft just by chatting, and then I spend hours reorganizing and editing.)