Ask HN: What are your note-taking techniques?

Being swamped with projects and wanted to find a better note-taking system to manage all my information. My plan is to eventually transfer over to something digital - looking at Excel or OneNote for a GTD system.

My constraints are that I'm in an enterprise environment so cloud solutions aren't viable.

I went paperless in college.

My method is Notepad++ with either a cloud storage solution, or a shared network drive. I take my laptop to all meetings and take what notes I need, then store those in my cloud/network storage. (In certain situations, I'll use my phone instead of my laptop)

I use Excel heavily, and it's a great tool for many uses - managing and manipulating lists of servers and data quickly, better grid formatting than Word/Outlook, script generation automation (using VBA to create Powershell scripts), and other uses. But it's a terrible note-taking platform to me.

I've had a love-hate relationship with OneNote. It works best for me from within Sharepoint. Others make much better use of the tool than I do, and hopefully you'll be able to do so too.

I also went paperless.

I keep track of everything in Evernotes with The Secret Weapon. (http://www.thesecretweapon.org/)

It is email + evernotes + GTD.

Takes a little bit of effort to set up/ get oriented with but worth it.

I've been using gingko, its changed the way I take notes! Awesome tool.

https://gingkoapp.com/p/note-taking-app/

Plain text files and indentation.