Comment by y33t

The best system I've come up with is to timestamp all my notes and sort them chronologically in a filing cabinet. You can link to notes by their timestamp, create indexes, calendars, weekly or daily todos etc, as necessary. The idea is that a note can be whatever you want or need it to be in that moment. Just make it addressable. Timestamps also give temporal context to correlate with emails, phone calls, or any other logged activity.

I found that trying to organize my notes one way or another introduced more work and cognitive load than it saved. Just timestamp it and let the rest happen naturally. Wu wei?

It's similar to a zettlekasten I guess, but without the effort.