I started to write a reply to this, but realised it was turning into a full blog post in its own right, so I've copied it out for later, and will give a skeleto

I started to write a reply to this, but realised it was turning into a full blog post in its own right, so I've copied it out for later, and will give a skeleton reply here. Some notes you can take while you're sitting at a machine. You can probably type as fast as you can write, possibly faster, so typed notes can go straight into whatever system[0] you use. Other notes occur when you're walking, or eating, or meditating, or exercising. For those I have two processes. One is simply use the "Notepad" app on my Android phone, hit the microphone, and dictate directly. The other is to write it on paper and mark it as "unfiled". These are unrefined notes. Later I revisit them and convert them into the first type of note, and, as above, insert them into my system, then mark them as "filed" (or just delete them). But how do you insert them into your system? For some people it's just a case of recording them in a searchable repository, and there they leave them until such a time as they perform the right search. However ... In my opinion, the value of a note-taking, note-preserving system is not in simply having lots of notes. For me, the value is in the "conversation" that I have with my repository. That conversation happens whenever I choose to interrogate the system, but it also happens as a part of the process of inserting notes. Inserting notes is an active process. I don't just "write and forget-until-searched". Inserting a note means finding a place to insert it, devising and using hashtags, connecting this note to other notes, creating backlinks, adding annotations to other notes, and generally enriching the whole system. It's working for me. [0] This is entirely another kettle of fish.