I really like Logseq though I don't necessarily trust development will focus on the non-database version (I use Syncthing to synchronize and share my task information/notes between devices, not interested in complex syncing solutions that make it anything more than simple filesharing).

I just can't get myself to put effort into an organizational system that relies on a for-profit companies software. I know Evernote has been great but this is about the distorting effects of the tech economy not the earnestness of developers to create a useful tool.

My preferred system is Org Mode, it just hasn't had actually viable mobile options until fairly recently (and you have to set up your own file syncing i.e. Syncthing or something else) but something I think that really helps to take into a system like Evernote or Logseq even if you never try Org mode is the wisdom of Org mode always being about a tree/a hierarchy of bullet points/headings.

A lot of people recoil at the limitation of org mode working around hierarchical heading structures, and sure the first response is that well you can make org mode work in many different ways as a non-hierarchical notes system but also the criticism that a notes system should not strictly be hierarchical because life and all the stuff in it isn't organized in a strict hierarchy is flawed.

Hierarchical structuring of information is not a virtue because it reflects some natural reality, it is a virtue because it provides a context and flow to an unotherwise momentumless list of disparate loosely connected bits. We problem solve and think in hierarchies knowing they are imperfect representations of reality because they are useful temporary tools to help us get things done.

Maps are always lies, models are always lies, and hierarchies too are always lies. That doesn't mean these things can't be used as useful tools however.

The point of a hierarchy to org mode notes is not to create a tree that forces every new thing you add to find a twig to be pasted onto, it is to help you cognitively process disparate things into a progressively unifying flow.

Evernote is a deep hole where notes go to die.

I think this tends to happen when I use note systems like these because they don't encourage you to create a unifying upstream conjoining of small tasks into bigger concepts/goals into the impacts you hope them to have on your life... whereas when you make an org file for your life or a project the presence of the first line with a single bullet point

• life

...naturally sets the intentional convergence point for the rest of your subheadings.

Me, every time I try to tidy up Notepad++ tabs and it wants me to save all my ephemeral notes, new_2 thru new_136.