[JohnFen]

Mostly, I use a physical notepad and pens/pencils. If I take notes this way, I "internalize" them better. I organize them sequentially by date. If I'm working on a desktop machine, I will also occasionally use a text editor (the simplest one the DE has to offer. In Windows, this means notepad).

I've tried a ton of different methods of note-taking, including the ones you name as well as dedicated note-taking appliances. None of them work well for me, because they all complicate the note-taking such that the act of taking notes becomes disruptive to whatever it is I'm really doing.