[shanemhansen]

I discovered this independently. After years of trying and failing to organize my notes by project/folder I finally was inspired by my scientist wife's labbook entries and decided that to try an append only log (which happens to be an org file).

My current main labbook.org file has 20k lines and a header for each day. Super easy to just search for any content/tags. I use org todo tracking (which mostly just automates toggling between [TODO][DONE]) and the org babel features mean that I can also use it like a python/jupyter notebook with little code snippets and visual graphs. I use snippets of python, graphviz, shell most often but occasionally sqlite/duckdb/too.

It's really the only system that's worked for me.