Comment by bodge5000

I find theres two groups of people within the "PKM space", those who love tinkering with it and therefore do so all the time, and those who absolutely despise it and yet are compelled to try to work it out. It sounds like you fall into that second group, I certainly do.

Strangely, I've never had a problem with it at work. Right now I use boostnote, but I could use pretty much anything else with a search box, however I think the reason there is that I make notes of solutions. If I ever run into the same problem again, I can search that problem and find a solution.

At home meanwhile, I take notes about ideas. Obviously ideas (at least not in my case) aren't triggered by a problem, so theres never a need to search for them unless I force myself to, and yet theres much more of a desire not to forget them.

Add to that the desire to have a "system" thats simple and reliant on no proprietary software features and low maintenance, ect... as well as all the possibilities that present themselves (each with their own flaws) and I end up in this terrible loop of perfecting a system I don't particularly want to perfect.