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Re:Lists, more lists, and the power of checkboxes (2019) by yoyohello13 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @04:31PM (#28053769)
I won't try to sell you anything, but this is the basis of Emacs org mode.
Re:Lists, more lists, and the power of checkboxes (2019) by User23 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @06:29PM (#28055007)
And then it adds note taking, literate programming, and hyperlinking to, well, anything you or someone else wrote a protocol handler for.

I'm not as smart as I used to be and my short term memory and long term recall are both not what they were in my teens, but using org-mode as a prosthetic brain has kept me as if not more effective.