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My 80/20, grug-brained personal productivity system: - Cool stuff: URLs, books, movies, etc. I want to remember. - Useful stuff: how/where/etc for things I do a few times a year. - Cooked: for cooking/baking: what recipe (URL or book), any adjustments I made, how it turned out.

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I should also mention that these are just big, long, mega-notes in chronological order. So pretty easy to find things by visually scanning, and (rarely) searching.

the grug insight here is that capture cost is paid every time, but retrieval cost is paid rarely and only for things worth finding again. over-organizing at capture time is a tax on every thought. chronological with search is secretly the optimal structure for most things.

Honest question: six months from now, when you vaguely remember a gyoza tweak but not which note it's in, how do you find it - just CMD+F and hope for the right keyword?

It's just a single note for all cooking/baking stuff. So I can do Cmd+F or just visually scan. I don't try that many new things (maybe a few times a month) so it's pretty easy to find.