[dwh452]

The best thing I have done for making my notes usable is to have a simple grep script that runs anywhere and searches all the notes files I have. My script is case insensitive and matches lines that contains all the strings you searched on.

[lvass]

Indeed. For Emacs users, there's consult-notes-search-in-all-notes which does that with file previews.

[codazoda]

To that end I recently wrote about several modern ways to convert handwritten notes to searchable notes. I primarily write handwritten notes because of the mental benefits of doing so.

https://notes.joeldare.com/handwritten-text-recognition

[pflenker]

Couldn’t agree more. Make your notes discoverable by search would be my number one recommendation.