Zettelkasten Note-Taking

Have you heard about the Zettelkasten method? It's pretty much what you're describing.

You need a "second brain".https://obsidian.md/

You should try Logseq. What you do is just write. Don't actively think about it, organization will come naturally. Just liberally use tags and backlinks to find your notes later. That's all.

I don't know, articles about zettelkasten get a lot of love: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=zettelkasten

Sounds like you might want to look into the various mindmapping or zettelkasten tools out there (such as Obsidian (https://obsidian.md) or Mindmaps.app (https://www.mindmaps.app))

For years, I experimented with paper, org-mode, text notes (Sublime Text, TextEdit) to manage my thoughts and life. What I ended up with was folder after folder of disorganized notes, files like daily.txt, todo.txt, log.rtf that ended up disgusting me.I would so strongly recommended everyone reading this to check out Roam Research (https://roamresearch.com/). At it's core, it's a collection of text

You might benefit from a tool called Roam Research:https://www.nateliason.com/blog/roam

I've wrote my own note-taking tool for things like this.https://github.com/Azeirah/brainstorm.git

you've just described the zettelkasten :)

I currently use The Archive app (Zettelkasten style) : https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/