Avid note-taker here. I agree with you in that the two mediums - (1) a note taking software where you type in things (2) writing notes on paper - have different benefits and use-cases.
In my case, I pretty much now know what kind goes where. For the "planning" kind - these are TODOs, movie and reading lists, project ideas, project subtasks -they go into a tool like Notion, or Google Keep if they are very simple transient lists. What I need here are: the ability to search, modify in place (not strike-throughs), and access on any device (so this s/w typically is cloud-enabled). The last aspect is needed because I need a way to accommodate ad-hoc ideas into a larger pre-existing plan, when I am travelling and I just have my phone, or a different laptop.
When I am reading a paper, or watching a lecture, I strongly prefer handwritten notes. I have experimented with standard notebooks, moleskins, having a "two-level" system: one notebook for quick notes, and another one for well-formed versions of notes from the first one, and finally, taking notes on loose foolscaps and adding them to a folder. The last one has stuck, mostly because I don't have to worry about "wasting" pages with ill-formed notes; I can choose not to add it to the folder. Also I can change organization at a later date. For this category of notes, I am looking for: the handwriting experience, the ability to arbitrarily format and color things (very helpful for technical material that need diagrams).
PS: the article links to some ways of structuring notes, which seem interesting.
In my case, I pretty much now know what kind goes where. For the "planning" kind - these are TODOs, movie and reading lists, project ideas, project subtasks -they go into a tool like Notion, or Google Keep if they are very simple transient lists. What I need here are: the ability to search, modify in place (not strike-throughs), and access on any device (so this s/w typically is cloud-enabled). The last aspect is needed because I need a way to accommodate ad-hoc ideas into a larger pre-existing plan, when I am travelling and I just have my phone, or a different laptop.
When I am reading a paper, or watching a lecture, I strongly prefer handwritten notes. I have experimented with standard notebooks, moleskins, having a "two-level" system: one notebook for quick notes, and another one for well-formed versions of notes from the first one, and finally, taking notes on loose foolscaps and adding them to a folder. The last one has stuck, mostly because I don't have to worry about "wasting" pages with ill-formed notes; I can choose not to add it to the folder. Also I can change organization at a later date. For this category of notes, I am looking for: the handwriting experience, the ability to arbitrarily format and color things (very helpful for technical material that need diagrams).
PS: the article links to some ways of structuring notes, which seem interesting.