* random lists (e.g., things to do, books to read, movies on netflix)
* personal CMS (e.g., mailing addresses, the name of so-and-so's boyfriend, etc. etc.)
* bookmarked articles with quotes or summaries (e.g., I read lots of things like https://psyche.co/ideas/a-touch-of-absurdity-can-help-to-wra... but since the idea that absurdity can push people towards the familiar is very disheartening to me, and therefore has interesting implications for my ideas, I'm taking notes on it)
* "ruby case statement syntax" (don't laugh, I switch languages a lot at work, and it's always faster to pull up the neat little answer I wrote myself)
* drafts of things like blog posts
* little fragments of ideas that I might or might not want to turn into blog posts
* journaling (especially nice when linked to entries for people mentioned)
* freewriting on anything I should probably be seeing a therapist for
* personal project documentation (e.g. install commands for self-hosted nonsense)
It's never "I wish I had taken notes of this" exactly, but more a combination of being able to pull up some fact /information/resource, draft things with lots of interlinked connections, or write just about anything down with connections to other things (like my journal entries linked to people they mention). In addition, the process of writing notes means you remember more even if you never consult the notes you wrote, so it's not wasted even in that case.
* personal CMS (e.g., mailing addresses, the name of so-and-so's boyfriend, etc. etc.)
* bookmarked articles with quotes or summaries (e.g., I read lots of things like https://psyche.co/ideas/a-touch-of-absurdity-can-help-to-wra... but since the idea that absurdity can push people towards the familiar is very disheartening to me, and therefore has interesting implications for my ideas, I'm taking notes on it)
* "ruby case statement syntax" (don't laugh, I switch languages a lot at work, and it's always faster to pull up the neat little answer I wrote myself)
* drafts of things like blog posts
* little fragments of ideas that I might or might not want to turn into blog posts
* journaling (especially nice when linked to entries for people mentioned)
* freewriting on anything I should probably be seeing a therapist for
* personal project documentation (e.g. install commands for self-hosted nonsense)
It's never "I wish I had taken notes of this" exactly, but more a combination of being able to pull up some fact /information/resource, draft things with lots of interlinked connections, or write just about anything down with connections to other things (like my journal entries linked to people they mention). In addition, the process of writing notes means you remember more even if you never consult the notes you wrote, so it's not wasted even in that case.