I spent time trying to learn the 'right' way to take notes and eventually decided to make use of what works for me. I use MOCs (Maps of Content) and folders a lot. I have a HOME note that is my master MOC. Every note has a link back to HOME and to the MOC the next level up. I set them up using:
TOP::HOME (link used)
UP::Next Level
Then if there are other notes I want to cross-reference I'll use:
SEE::note to look at.
That gives me a relevant directory of sorts at the top of every note.
In the notes I will use hashtags on general topics like #biznotes #notetaking so I can then easily search out topics of focused interest for me.
Recently I found GPT4All which gives me an AI chatbot on my desktop that can be used without a connection to the next thus keeping my data private. It will read Obsidian vaults. I can tell AI to check my collection for whatever query I want and it will come back with a summary list of references I can look at or I can just ask it to summarize the information.
Unfortunately, they did an update of the software and it's triggered a fault that wont run on some machines, one being mine. I hope they are working on resolving the problem.
my practical issue with the way i take notes is that there is no consistent template/sytle/framework way to my taking notes. I keep getting scatterbrained about it somehow :(
maybe your framework is scatterbrained and write accordingly. Search functions can sort out of lot of scatter :)
Good Point. I should explore this further.