> I was hoping to find a system to let me take notes,
> with tags and easy searching.
> 
> However, after testing 14 notetaking apps and not finding a usable one,
> I'll try a directory of markdown files managed by git.

tspivey was writing about note taking. I've discovered and built a
note taking system that works very well for me. I read an article by
Derek Sivers[1] on the enefits of a ddaily/topic journal.  This has
worked very well for me. The way I do it is ai have an index:

- ThisTopic
- AnotherTopic
- SomeTopic
- FinalTopic

In vim I can easily sort these with vip:sort<cr>

I usually use vim and it's pretty trivial to search for these things.
All you have to do is put the cursor or the item and press `*`. That
will search for whatever is under the cursor. Other editors it can be
pretty reasonable as well - even with edbrowse you must have to search
with a regular search.

By sorting the index (in vim: vip:sort<cr>) it's very easy to maintain
an ordered index. Then each entry consists of something like so:
    
    
    ThisTopic
    =========

This is easily accomplished in vim with yypVr=
In edbrowse you can do it with .t. followed by .s/./=/g

I personally like to put timestamps in my file.  I couldn't find a way to
easily do that with edbrowse. There might be one.  But the approach I take in
vim was to make a couple of new bindings in my vimrc.

Anway...

I have a daily journal and a topic journal, all in one file. It's
worked great for me - I simply use my regular search. Oh! Yeah an important
part of this is that I use the original WikiText -
those words won't usually appear in normal text.
Anyway, that has been rather successful for me.
I don't know if there are better ways to do things,
but that's kind of the way it works for me.

If any o fthat is confusing, feel free to reach out to me@wangofett.com and
I'll be happy to answer any questions I can!

ETX