I am not disciplined enough to do the initial linking by using these timestamps, will also not break out of the flow to find the previous note in another folder

I am not disciplined enough to do the initial linking by using these timestamps, will also not break out of the flow to find the previous note in another folder and copy the timestamp around. Instead I’ve been using a stream of small auto-timestamped logs with hashtags to take and retrieve my notes and ideas. It is not a tree-based system, it’s just a text log stream and has worked extremely well for me so far. I used to do this in a private slack group but eventually created an app called ZenJournal. You may also find it useful.