> I don't think plain text is sufficient for taking notes, because it lacks hyperlinks. Org mode files are plain text and they support links: http://orgmode.o

> I don't think plain text is sufficient for taking notes, because it lacks hyperlinks. Org mode files are plain text and they support links: http://orgmode.org/manual/Hyperlinks.html http://orgmode.org/manual/Hyperlinks.html > Hyperlinks are incredibly important because they are associative and non-hierarchical... that is exactly what you need for note taking and brainstorming. I organize my Org mode wiki like Wikipedia: each document/topic can be linked from multiple parent documents/topics. So documents/topics are organized using a combination of both tagging and hierarchies. I've heard this type of organization referred to as hierarchical tagging.