[alexpetralia]

If anyone is interested, the term for this field is "personal knowledge management."

There are a few basic principles that can help keep the system organized and useful.

Personally I use Google Keep and OneNote: every weekend I funnel the unstructured thoughts, ideas and realizations into a structured format organized in OneNote. It takes a bit of time, but I can look back on any of my notes on programming or real estate or marketing or psychology and instantly find them useful.

[shawn]

Please, for the love of all that is open source, someone create an open alternative to OneNote. It’s easily one of the best Microsoft tools ever, and there doesn’t seem to be a good equivalent. It also seems like the perfect pinboard-style lifestyle business.

[Tomte]

The problem is that thiy type of tool needs mobile apps for both iOS and Android before people will use it.

Doable, but much more effort than a first attempt on bookmarking.

[kungtotte]

For early adopters it would be enough to have a great import functionality. There are lots of mobile note taking apps that support cloud saves or exports/saves in open formats, so people could use one of them and save to a folder on Dropbox or Gdrive and have the main app source content from there.

[JoshTriplett]

Yes, please. Something that can open OneNote documents compatibly, in particular.