I do something like your touch incantation, but as a bash function (mknote) that takes an argument for a basic "name". So whenever I make a note, it goes to ~/

I do something like your touch incantation, but as a bash function (mknote) that takes an argument for a basic "name". So whenever I make a note, it goes to ~/notes/$date-$1.txt which I then come back to later either manually or with "enote" (which opens emacs for the latest note matching $1 via ls -t). Having the name really helps me see visually what I'm looking for, roughly remember (like any title) what important enough things happened in the last while, and so on. As for daily notes/TODO, I've long given up on a single TODO.txt, but do have several years of weekly status entries in the "Google snippets" form of "this week, next week". For 2018, I finally gave in and switched to Markdown rather than my own sort of format ("dash means done as planned, X means didn't do it, + means something unplanned happened"). Edit: phone typos.