After years of a personal PIM (in org-mode and experiments with DokuWiki) I've concluded that to manage notes we do need some kind of structure, a free graph will became unmanageable after a certain quantity of notes. That structure is simply a chronology, since the flow of time is a thing common to pretty anything.<p>My actual setup is:<p>- daily notes, meaning when I want to write something I'll put in today note, no thinking about where to archive, under a common year root, with a monthly recap;<p>- binders notes, who transclude or link single notes inside a daily one (headings in org-mode lingo) assembling and arranging them as I wish, under a "live archive" root;<p>- not current anymore binders under a "dead archive" root.<p>Such structure so far allow me to store and retrieve pretty anything and always find and consolidate things, something I can't do with ZK, LYT, PARA and other common techniques.<p>That's to simply say a thing: we do not need the nth wiki style slick UI app but something that offer:<p>- live rendering, like org-mode or even Zim, no separation between source form and rendered form, because that's makes easy write and edit things;<p>- transclusion (TiddlyWiki, Dokuwiki+Include plugin (a bit limited), BookStack, org-transclude albeit a bit slow and limited) because to create our library of babel (cfr. Conrad Gessner ~1545 but also many others) we must been able to take atomic notes AND COMPOSE THEM in various ways;<p>- attachment support (a decent one, org-attach it's ok, but only because it's bare simple so it's easy to hijack, Paperless it's damn slow but flexible enough and so on);<p>- ability to INTEGRATE anything. In this regard ALL modern software can't win, simply because modern systems are designed for commercial reasons, not like classic ones where the OS was a single user-programmable application, and an application is just code added to the OS. The web try to recover DocUIs and composability but it's really limited. We can let's say link GMail threads in notes, but it's far from link a notmuch-accessed local mail linked in org-mode;<p>- offering by default a chronology, even Zim offer that to a certain extent with the builtin calendar.<p>Without the above just write some new and uncertain project fully knowing that migrating contents is far from being easy or granted and it's a very painful thing, is IMVHO a waste of time...