I go for a low-fi approach: it is a single text file. $ notes appends a new line, current date like Mon 05 Oct 2020 10:20:47 AM EDT another new line and a set

I go for a low-fi approach: it is a single text file. $ notes appends a new line, current date like Mon 05 Oct 2020 10:20:47 AM EDT another new line and a set of === as a separator and moves the editor cursor to the bottom. So I can immediately type. If I type $ notes So that was weird then it will take whatever I typed at the command line and append that as well allowing me to continue to type in the editor. Finally I use :tag to freetag notes so I can easily search through notes based on the topics. I figure eventually I might figure out a better system but so far this one worked very well.