I confess having been corrupted from text files to org mode, mostly because of the relative ease of sticking timestamps into notes, having links in the files th

I confess having been corrupted from text files to org mode, mostly because of the relative ease of sticking timestamps into notes, having links in the files that don't spew the urls all over, having convenient html export, and being an outliner that can collapse chunks of text. I sometimes use the built-in table/spreadsheet feature. There's a bunch more stuff I don't use. I do refer to and maintain my org files to some extent. Typically I'll get interested in some topic start an org file where I mostly save links haphazardly, with brief comments. I don't put serious effort into cross-linking related entries which a bunch of notes apps seem to expect you to do. That seems like a waste of time. The org files are just info dumps where I throw whatever info I find into a bin of related items. Once or twice I've written something up for publication based on the notes in one of those files, but that meant writing actual words and sentences in an organized sequence, not cross-linking a bunch of notes to each other.