Comment by joseph8th

I keep meaning to try org-roam, but when I looked into use-cases it didn't really match my flow. I tend to take two kinds of notes: jots and dev notes.

Jots go on paper, and are dealt with quickly.

Dev notes are for my own reference, and I provide them with a certain formality and completeness, as if I were writing documentation.

Years later, when questions inevitably come up about that legacy code, I have a plain text file I can send to whomever, with reference to the Jira ticket. Often I attach these notes to the ticket.

So a whole back-linked network of little informal notes and jots isn't in /my/ flow. It has no useful place. Instead, notes are where I expect: in local files related to the project.

My other major use for notes is the novel I'm working on. There, I can relate to the OP's "where do I put this?" dilemma. I have a scratch section, but it's more like a graveyard of ideas. Otherwise, my notes already have so much structure that I have to make decisions. But, that's the job, isn't it?