Why do all these people like taking notes? I recommend a very simple process, which is to delete them and just remember everything.
Not sure if you're serious, but you made me laugh, so have an upvote.
I'm one of those people who went pretty hard into the whole "Second Brain" movement (using Apple Notes first, then Obsidian).
~6000 notes later and I've started finding the whole thing overwhelming and pointless at the same time. The vast majority of notes I have don't need to be noted down. At most they could have been a journal entry rather than a separate, curated piece.
Usually I hear something like "excessive noting means you're less likely to try to commit something to memory because you know it's there when you need it". (This is touted as an advantage of the Second Brain concept, incidentally.)
But I've actually found something different as well: excessive noting means you're actively engaging with significantly more information, and most of it is designed to be (or at least should be considered) ephemeral. Noting so much of it down is effectively the digital equivalent of hoarding junk, and the mental/memory repercussions are similar to the physical repercussions of hoarding actual junk.
With (most) note taking systems, you’re supposed to periodically “clean house/review”, which among other things, avoids the problem you’re describing. I don’t do it often myself tbf.
I'm sure this in jest, but my real answer: I remember so much more when I have notes to look back on. I store mine as some YYYY-MM-DD-Notes.txt and edit via local web UI or terminal/SSH. It's a blast to browse and see what I was thinking and doing, and how I've changed over time.
I save working knowledge elsewhere as Topic.md in subfolders so I can remember how I deployed an app or fixed a recurring issue etc.
I sort of understand the mindset that elaborate notetaking systems are a waste of time because 95 percent or more never gets used but the value of something like Apple Notes for tiny details that are both necessary and relatively tough to remember seems hard to dispute. Do you memorize things like part numbers, confirmation numbers, and dimensions?
(If this is a joke, well, I salute your dry humor.)
This but seriously. I find the vast majority of things I need to remember are better remembered by doing just enough of the research I did initially over again to jog my memory, I never read anything I write down again anyway. Although most of the knowledge work I do is programming, and I do write a lot of comments in the code or issue tracker so I guess that counts.