Comment by slightwinder

> I find that the note-taking experience is now good enough [0]. You can start a note easily, write and structure your thought with minimal markup, include links and other material without much friction and save the note on your distributed storage/storage. I think we are close to maximal efficiency for this experience, at least in this note=text paradigm.

I don't think that is true, because solutions today are not much better than 20 years ago. It's just more flavors and whistles now, but the fundamental flaws are still there.

> However, when you want to search or reorganize, most tools only give you minimal support. Searching by keyword ? Only if you tagged it yourself or there's an exact match in the text (forget about synonyms).

There is fulltext-search. But true, synonyms would improve this. It might even be not that hard to implement. All you need is a list of synonyms for your preferred language, and maybe a spelling check for the input. And it might be better to be just an option, people don't really like oversmart systems which do things they didn't ask for. Google is doing this too, and often enough people are annoyed by it as it leads to wrong solutions.

> Notes in domain A but not domain B ?

Each domain it's own folders/vault. But this is something for a mature search engine on googles level. Not the kind of technology we will see on crappy apps yet. Maybe google could build their own note-app, boundled with their web-search. But I fear it would suck on details and closed after 18 months.

> No sharing and user permissions.

Such systems are called wiki or CMS. Note-Taking is not limited to better text-editors. There are mature enterprise-systems in this space. Though, a simple wiki is already enough for most of this.

> Taking notes and organizing them on the go is still very second-class citizen.

Not really. The Web-Solutions are not worse or better on mobile than they are on desktop. The major problem are small smartphones which are generally bad for working well on the go. Though, you could use a tablet, chromebook or notebook computer. The other problem is, web-service generally suck if you have custom demand or just don't wanna pay for them.

But then again, mobile note-handling is one of the most improved areas in note-taking-space in the last decades. But mostly because mobile is now possible for cheap and on relative high level, not because note-taking itself has improved much.