It took a long time to get to where I am. It's like a personal operating system. Over many years, tons of little tweaks and a few tool changes got it to where i

It took a long time to get to where I am. It's like a personal operating system. Over many years, tons of little tweaks and a few tool changes got it to where it is right now. Key thing is to ask yourself what you want: - plan your day or ahead of time? - remember what you did yesterday, or over the past week? - record details about a particular experience? - journal thoughts and ideas? This is not a complete list. Once you have a list, look at your note taking practice and ask yourself: What is one thing I could change in order to be able to better accomplish what I want with my note taking? And then do it. Rinse, repeat. What I do is likely not going to serve others. What I have draws a lot of inspiration from GTD and from wikis. Some things are 'process" oriented, such as my TOOD list. Some things are "hub" oriented, with things like "Books", "Finance", "Project: Fix the sprinkler system". Hubs an have TODO lists, TODO archives, information, journals, pictures and anything else that relates to a given area. TODO lists hyperlink to relevant hubs. Hubs link to other hubs. Hyperlinks are key for keeping related things discoverable. It's likely that your notes will not form a neat hierarchy. Think of them more like a web. Notion is my favorite tool for this, but that's a personal preference. Based on how you describe your note taking practice, it seems that the biggest problem is that it is "most frequently non-existent". Start by doing, and then see how you can do it better, improving things bit by bit.