Comment by frumiousirc

Org-roam helps this problem for me in two levels. Sometime around the turn of the millennium, I started with org by writing files in a directory where I made a "topic" sub directory for each "thing" I wanted to note. This is rather high level and made creating each new "topic" feel too formalized, like I was writing a paper or a blog. That raised some mental bar to staring a new note and so I didn't write as much as I wanted to. org-roam-node-find helps by making it easy to emit disconnected bits. C-c n f and time some bits and either accept an existing match for update or start a new file is a much lighter-weight version of my "topic" directories. Then, even lighter is org-roam-dailies (C-c n d d) which does not even require me to be coherent enough to think of a "title". For this approach to be useful needs good recall methods and frankly that part is a bit weak in my setup. I use deadgrep or org-roam-node-find but would like to add some search that is a little more comprehensive and low-friction.