Second brain is a pretty common term for curating your knowledge in a structured way. While a text editor is a main component of it, it tends to allow us to: 1

Second brain is a pretty common term for curating your knowledge in a structured way. While a text editor is a main component of it, it tends to allow us to: 1) connect notes/ideas using tags or links 2) automatically generate graphs/views (some even do sql) 3) make it easy to look up past information. Some people can do it using a single txt file in notepad.exe and ctrl+f, some people add tags/headers/titles to make it easier, and some people go full graph DB with roam research. You might not enjoy that (and based on the comments, we enjoy dumping stuff to it more than using it), but no need to dismiss this.