I've personally tried a bunch of writing and note taking approaches, and since it's such a personal process your personal preferences strongly dictate what work

I've personally tried a bunch of writing and note taking approaches, and since it's such a personal process your personal preferences strongly dictate what works for you and what doesn't, at least in my experience. Org mode is crazy powerful but has a steep learning curve, and coupled with being new to emacs it can be quite daunting. While I personally use doom emacs as my daily editor I found org mode didn't suit my way of working. I recently re-discovered Obsidian and I've been enjoying it a lot. It's very flexible, works in a way that I find intuitive to my brain and it's allowed me to keep a (almost) daily journal, as well as turned into a repository for notes I make about work projects and everything else. I'd recommend checking it out alongside org-mode.