This is very much why I keep things simple with an automated shell script[0] that creates and appends to a YYYY-MM.txt file for notes that's optimized for easy

This is very much why I keep things simple with an automated shell script[0] that creates and appends to a YYYY-MM.txt file for notes that's optimized for easy entry from the command line. I've been doing this style of note taking since 2001. There's never any reason to think about where to save it, how to save it, what tags I should use, what it's linked to, formatting and other distracting tasks. You just run `notes` and it opens this month's file in your default $EDITOR, `notes this is my 1 liner to append to the file` or `echo "something to pipe in" | notes` depending on what you want to add. It's just 1 continuous thought process of notes that's broken up by date and having it broken up by month is nice because if you're working on something that spans a few days you have everything together most of the time to recall it when you want it most. Then for recalling specific older entries it's really easy to use grep and other command line tools or just open the whole directory in your editor and casually browse your notes if you want to go down memory lane. [0]: https://github.com/nickjj/notes https://github.com/nickjj/notes