[ntaso]

I dumped all note-taking tools and just use Sublime. I took the idea of timestamp-based ids from Zettelkasten and simplified it even more. My setup now is:

Create text file named `YYYY-MM-DD Title of the Note.txt`. Save to a folder. Write freeform.

I think it's important to understand one concept of note-taking:

You can either spend more time organizing to spend less time retrieving information later. Or you can spend less time organizing and (slightly) more time retrieving information.

If you're starting out or don't refer to older notes that often, it's a better idea to just dump everything with as little friction as possible and use a search tool to find information.

[twobitshifter]

This is basically org journal. With a quick search you can find everything you need. I agree the tagging aspect and organization is overkill for many purposes, but the benefits is that it might help you remember related topics that a search would not have turned up.

[pps]

I'm also using Sublime, but with https://github.com/renerocksai/sublime_zk that makes it much smoother