Not the OP, but I've ended up on a good note taking pattern that works for me. I create a new folder each week with the week number of my time of employment as the name. Then, all notes for that week get put in that folder. I don't know why, but this works for me. I think knowing there's a place for them that I know I can find them later lowers the activation energy I need to take notes. Also, I put the top-level folder in my `CDPATH`.

It's not a process, but I found this gives some structure to the chaos.