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Obligatory reference to Emacs Org-Mode [1].

Author's approach is basically Org-Mode with fewer helpers.

Org-mode's power is that, at core, it's just a text file, with gradual augmentation.

Then again, Org-Mode is a tool you must install, accessible through a limited list of clients (Emacs originally, but also VSCode), and the power of OP's approach is that it requires no external tools.

[1] https://orgmode.org

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I found the hierarchy imposed by Org was more friction for me than it was worth. Adding Org Roam into the mix and making many bite sized files in a directory, and hyperlinking them together has proven to be incredibly useful to me. Notes fall out of my brain and are instantly discoverable. I often find useful notes that I completely forgot that I wrote.

A nice thing about Org-Mode is that you can keep an active todo list in one file for daily tasks and then at the end of the day send all done items to an archive file (C-c C-x C-a). That way, you still have all your tasks in a searchable format if you ever need to go back to them, but the active file — which you open each day — is small and snappy.

There's also org-journal, where a global keybind (I use the recommended C-c C-j) adds an empty timestamped item to a dated file.

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