I've tried a lot of note taking apps over the last 8 years. Over the past few months I've become less fussed about the tools and more focused on the process: I

I've tried a lot of note taking apps over the last 8 years. Over the past few months I've become less fussed about the tools and more focused on the process: I now have a file for each week (I call it a journal or weekly notes), with a heading for each day of the week, and a sub-heading for each meeting/conversation/thing I'm thinking about. At the each week, as part of my weekly review (GTD), I review the weekly notes file. I scan my notes for each meeting/etc. and consider whether I need to do anything with them: I often have to create a task; sometimes I want to hang on to something so I move it into an evergreen note [1] on the topic (at the moment, I have one for work, and one for personal, but I expect I'll split these out as they accumulate). But for most things in my weekly notes, no action is necessary and I'll probably never look at them again (unless I need to refer back to something someone said later, which is easy to find if I wrote it). So far it's working pretty well for me. I think the key is the regular review/processing. I think I could implement this in just about any tool, so long as there's an easy way to quickly add an entry with a timestamp to the current weekly note file. I happen to use org-mode in emacs for this with org-journal (using doom emacs, only switched a couple months ago) but other tools would work just as well I bet. [1]: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4SDCZQeRo4xFEQ8H4qrSqd68ucpgE6LU155C https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4SDCZQeRo4xFEQ8H4qrSqd68ucp...