Stream-of-Thought Note Taking

I do this sort of &quot;raw material&quot; note-taking on a piece of paper because a lot of my thoughts I feel most able to express with diagrams, shapes, lines-between-things, visual patterns, etc. I haven&#x27;t found a good digital equivalent.<p>It&#x27;s fascinating to see other people&#x27;s systems, since it gives a glimpse into the different sorts of minds out there. Doing everything with text feels like a straitjacket to me, but likely the same would be true for other people if they did it my way.<p>Does anyone else feel like the &quot;thoughts == words&quot; crowd get too much press, sometimes?