I think people overcomplicate note-taking.

Make topic-specific folders for discrete topics (e.g. recipes). Anything generic, put it in a big diary file with daily entries. It's easy to scroll through my past few days of notes, and after a few days I don't really need to reference uncategorized miscellanea for the most part. If I do, I can usually find it with ctrl-F-style text search.

At the end of the day/week/whatever, feel free to #tag anything you think you'll need to come back to or copy it into a topic-specific file. I mostly don't do this though. People feel a need to retain this big body of knowledge from their notes, but I think most notes are disposable. It's easier to wait a little while before reviewing & then decide what's worth saving, which is typically not much.