Ask HN: What do you use for you personal note taking activity?

Currently, my notes are scattered in unnamed Sublime tabs, pockets, 'safe for later' on fb, pinboards. And they don't end up much useful later.

So, fellow hackers, how do you take notes? What do you use?

I envision a platform which is very accessible (on phone/ laptop), easy and lightweight to jot down things (like sublime tabs, they are very light and I end up using them more than Evernote files, even when I am a premium member).

At the access side, those notes are easy to search, they follow some graph-like data structure, super smooth to add new updates (like if I have a movie node in my db, and I see some interesting movie somewhere, it should be super easy to add them in my list). If I am reading about some new topic, I can create stories out of them and should be able to add notes to it, like adding tweets in a tweet conversation.

I am thinking to make something of my own which cater my needs but meanwhile, I am thinking I will make what already is there rather than not using anything at all.

Right now I have two general repos:

1. tomboy desktop wiki. Realistically, this is usually a write only repository for me to get ideas out that I never follow up on. But I like to think the exercise is beneficial, or at least thereapeutic.

2. rocketbook wave + frixion pens. Phone calls, meetings, random engineering diagrams, and the occasional Nikoli puzzle go in here. I just went through my first scan-in and heat erasure cycle, seems to work? These notes I do occasionally refer back to, with I'd imagine an exponential decay model. Needing to know the name of the recruiter I talked to and what they said is more important in the week after than the month or quarter after. Some day I'll try adopting bulletjournal's note style. But for now, meh.

Edit:

I don't even think of these as notes, but I do use a lot of todo lists. I have a Trello board for my video game collection, to track what I have, whether I can sell it, and where i've listed it for sale (and at what price). I have another Trello board for general todos, a caldav server that I've been ignoring lately, and some tasks in google cal that I've also been ignoring.

I send email to myself. Sometimes I just keep them in drafts.

Email myself

Notebooks. They're surprisingly easy to search: if you use them a lot you'll notice that you often remember exactly which page a certain note appears on. You can also help by always starting a new note on a new right-hand page, and writing one or two keywords in the top-right corner.