I have recently transitioned from wet lab biology to knowledge work. Something I brought with me through the transition was the keeping of dated physical notes with a digital todo list (also with dates). I find being able to scribble the physical graph I want to make, a vague table, or just some comments or math from a research paper really helps. The digital todo list helps me find old notes as dates effectively act as relative page numbers and all that is needed is a ctrl+F and then a bit of a flick through pages.
I personally don't have the discipline to organise my digital notes post-hoc, so I focus on just making notes using markdown files and sticking them somewhere in my onedrive so I can find them later. I do have a notes folder, but there is stuff that has found its way elsewhere. Thankfully searching markdown files is very easy.
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I have recently transitioned from wet lab biology to knowledge work. Something I brought with me through the transition was the keeping of dated physical notes with a digital todo list (also with dates). I find being able to scribble the physical graph I want to make, a vague table, or just some comments or math from a research paper really helps. The digital todo list helps me find old notes as dates effectively act as relative page numbers and all that is needed is a ctrl+F and then a bit of a flick through pages.
I personally don't have the discipline to organise my digital notes post-hoc, so I focus on just making notes using markdown files and sticking them somewhere in my onedrive so I can find them later. I do have a notes folder, but there is stuff that has found its way elsewhere. Thankfully searching markdown files is very easy.