[sethkojo]

I use Sublime. I prefer an editor over dedicated software or a blog mainly because of the indenting; it's also the most powerful text-manipulation tool I know. I have a certain indented writing style that helps structure my thoughts -- I flesh out thoughts in indented paragraphs (the more detailed a thought, the more nested it is). This helps me read a bit faster as I can easily skim by reading the outer most paragraphs and only diving into the details when necessary.

I organize my journals by keeping each month in its own file <month yyyy> (e.g., "jan 2013", "aug 2011"). And in each file I write the date (mm/dd) as the outer most indentation, then write the entry (indented) underneath it. So a typical file might look like:

  09/27
    Some notes here.

    An idea here.

    A particularly good idea here.
      So I flesh it out here.
        And add more details as I go.

    Some things I learned..

  09/28
    Today's entry...
      

I use software over paper for two reasons -- it's much faster to get my thoughts down and I can easily search through my thoughts later (a simple matter of Ctrl+Shift+F). Getting your thoughts down quicker helps with brain dumps which tend to be more useful than refined sentences later on as they capture more of the state that you happened to be in.