I find that advice about note taking is always unclear about what "note" means. It's also important to identify what problem you're trying to solve.<p>If you're recording information that you want to find later, then the overruling principle is whether you're able to find it and use it later. This is obviously very personal and even varies based on your progress through life.<p>If there is one piece of universal advice, it would be this. When you're writing a note, envision a future situation where you will want to find the note, and write the note such that the note can be easily found and understood in that situation.<p>Then, whenever you experience a situation where you would like to find a note but can't (or the note does not contain the information you need), update the note according to your expectations, and remember the incident for the next time you need to predict how to write a note.<p>People who get too into productivity or notetaking expect some kind of nebulous value from their notetaking, that it will somehow make them more organized as a person or grant them a higher frequency of inspiration leading to personal success.<p>If you're looking for organization in your life, I recommend the Getting Thing Done meta-method, which tells you what your personal organization system needs, but not specifically what fancy tools you need to implement it.<p>If you're looking for creative inspiration, unfortunately, both creativity and inspiration are fickle beasts. I have heard praise for the Zettelkasten method, but you'll probably have to try different things.