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Note taking and scalability

I enjoy taking notes. It frees up my short- and long time memory so that I only have to remember bits and pieces and know that I can search to find everything else. As such, I've tried various noting solutions over the years, being a staunch user of Evernote for many years before it got slow and starting to fail (weird synchronization issues, slow client ... ). Wanting to start over, I exported all of my notes (and misc. other files that I could just throw in there, since it mostly worked) to Google Drive where I could search for the data inside them (although the results weren't always pretty). I then tried Microsoft OneNote . After having used that extensively for the past two years, the client is getting slow and I'm starting to get more and more synchronization issues, tempting me to "just use notepad and a folder system!" But ... that is not as convenient to format and search as a noting app... Not counting text nodes, I have other things in my OneNot