I ended up on logseq after trying nearly every other notetaking platform and paradigm under the sun. Logseq is the only one I found myself using, and I've used it at nearly ever day at home and work for coming up on two years.

It works for me because I can just start typing. I don't have to worry about creating new pages. If I click on a reference (that is, a tag or page -- fundamentally the same thing), I can see all of the other places I referenced it. And all of the places I used that word but _didn't_ reference it.

I can go on and on about logseq and I'm happy to answer specific questions, but the important thing is: it works for me.