Yeah I guess it makes sense, it just threw me at first. There are also all the little pop-up notes on things. Again, it looks very time consuming to maintain.

Yeah I guess it makes sense, it just threw me at first. There are also all the little pop-up notes on things. Again, it looks very time consuming to maintain. I find it sufficient to just record the info in a file, and search for what I need in it using search commands or grep. For nesting info, the tree features of org mode seem like enough. Maybe I'll need more organization if my volume of notes gets a lot larger. I do have an idea for a big optimization but it's less about the notes than the source materials. I may try to write it up sometime. I look at the really big personal notes sites (gwern.net comes to mind) and wonder how the heck the authors ever find the time. Andymatuschak.org seems like another one of those. Do the authors do anything else, have regular jobs, or anything like that?