@ben What you describe sounds like useful 'great' note taking to me. Structure to me is emergent / earned from working with notes later on. Various structures are in my head, not explicit in the notes: they're my notes, I interact w them, I'm pretty predictable to myself, and the way I think is thus by def a structure in the notes. And yes a local LLM to make my notes a different type of conversation partner sounds useful.

@ben OLDaily has never tried to be anything more than a dump for my notes about things (with various subscription options, because I don't really care if it's private). It's worked for 35,000 or so notes.

@ben the Zettelkasten people distinguish between a "fleeting note", one that you take in the moment, and whatever they call a permanent note (I forget their term). I have never been disciplined enough to come back at the end of the day and decide what I want to keep. Thanks for the link to Winnie Lim's post; I like the idea that you just throw everything into a bucket and use text search to find it again later, which completely avoids the idea of your filing system having to be perfect.