The nice thing about both gjots2 and Zim, is that their source files read almost as easily as text. This is especially true for gjots2.

I like the hierarchical arrangement of gjots2. I still have Ctrl-F if I want to search, but sometimes in browsing a category, I find things I would not have found with search -- sometimes how I refer to things changes with time -- and I've got many years of gjots entries.

I do not, as gjots author Bob Hepple does, keep separate topics in separate gjots files -- one big tree in the left panel holds all topic headings.

Dokuwiki stores its pages in plain text, with a syntax designed to be readable in a text editor, outside the wiki.

Personally I like that notes are raw and stay raw. I even force me to not use capital letters to remind me of this.

But of course very often they are used as a draft for something more elaborate.