I tried many times to like Notion but it is far too complicated for my needs. It felt like procrastination, a tech version of a bullet journal. Spending too much time designing the system, and not enough actually using it. It felt like there was too much potential and flexibility, if that's possible - whilst being really crap at what I was looking for (todo list with notifications / offline personal document storage).
So its ticktick + one note (used to have Evernote until they mucked it up).
I've tried journaling but never feel like I have enough interesting things to document. Have you tried Apple Journal? Do you have templates you recommend?
"It felt like procrastination, a tech version of a bullet journal." There's a lot out there that certainly falls under what I call "procrasturbation," but the Bullet Journal is ironically the thing I've stuck with the longest. Ryder Carroll came up with a formalization of the concept more recently, but I've been using it since 1999, prompted by the removal of our backpacks due to Columbine.
I think the thing that a lot of folks miss is that it's a framework that's meant to grow incrementally with how you go through life and work.
Without a bag to keep everything together, I got tired of misplacing my notebooks, one for each class, so I started living out of only one at a time, which then led me to set up a sort of table of contents and numbered pages so I could find things. It also let me cope with my as-yet-undiagnosed OCD and ADHD by giving me the permission just to start at whatever page and treat the bound pages as a linked list instead of an array. (Bonus: the table of contents became a sort of allocation bitmap.)
Homework due dates and holidays and birthdays begat calendars of various sorts, inconsistent study habits begat habit trackers, notes from class meetings begat dailies wherein I braindump about whatever, etc., but none of that happened overnight. It built up over months to years.
Journaling is about the stuff you want to remember later so that you can reflect on it. Most of my entries involve doting on my cats (so many days where I'm just like, "Valérian was an aggressively cuddly purrbucket again" or "Laureline brought me another sock from the hamper") and, like, "on a lark, I dug out my old ThinkPad to find it actually isn't inoperative."
So its ticktick + one note (used to have Evernote until they mucked it up).
I've tried journaling but never feel like I have enough interesting things to document. Have you tried Apple Journal? Do you have templates you recommend?