Do you take notes in you everyday life and if so, what are your methods?
I have been pretty stubborn about note taking in school, even in college. Only recently, when working on ways to improve my sucking memory, I've found how useful they are. First I started with PC software (Tomboy Notes), but then realized that a regular paper notebook turns out to be much more convenient and practical for many daily uses - especially organizing your time. While paper notebook is great with things you're likely to need only for a short time, it's weak when you need to find a thing you noted a long time ago or organize the knowledge you've entered over multiple sessions (so that it lands on completely different pages).
Computer-based note taking shines for such applications. It makes searching and organizing it so much easier. I'm only struggling to find myself a software that would fill my needs. I know many people use Evernote. First it is unavailable on Linux (which is system of my choice), but what's even more important it has some pretty stupid limitations like not allowing nested notebooks (folders structuring notes into different categories/spaces) deeper than level 2. As I mentioned I use Tomboy Notes, which is a wiki-style, based on linking one note to others. I was pretty happy with it, until the number of my notes increased to a point, where I felt the need to organize them into some complex hierarchy of categories. Tomboy doesn't allow that, being based only on finding notes by either finding a link to it from another note or entering terms in the search box. I tried all different note taking apps I could find but none of them seemed to fully satisfy me. There is one called BasKet Note Pads which is great and gives a lot of freedom in creating the notes - treating the note space like a blank piece of paper, meaning you can write (and add other things like images, lists) anywhere in any order, rather than a linear text file. Unfortunately the project isn't maintained and the interface is very clumsy. I'm now even considering writing a note taking app myself...