[mushufasa]

I used to do this but that made it harder to search on the occasion I'm looking for a prior note.

I do everything in vim and it's more keystrokes to search across separate files.

I've been using one file for 2-3 years now and it's only 1mb.

[quesera]

I do the same in vi/vim/neovim, in a custom filetype with syntax highlighting for TODO items, status markers, tags, code blocks, etc:

  "my/work/xxx/201810.notes" 34502L, 1946600B written

5.5 years on this particular file, but I've been using the same system for at least twice as long as that.

The datestamp is the most recent time I thought it might be useful to rotate into a new file. It was not! I find it much more convenient to have everything in a single topic-based file, although I do separate personal from work, and employers from each other.

[adharmad]

Care to share your file format with some dummy entries?