Mini Notebook: Good for the desktop. My handwriting is a bit sloppy; various attempts at deciphering heiroglyphics can be disastrous. I'm a black pen enthusiast, so when one's not available, my OCD kicks into overdrive.

Apple Notes: A gold standard for nearly two decades. Although, doesn't transfer easily to my non-Apple devices. Manual labor involved with getting notes from Apple to Windows environment. Off-Apple access involves the very limiting iCloud website. If that dilemma could be rectified, it would be a utopia.

Microsoft OneNote: Helpful at work; not so much in my personal life.

Evernote: Worked great for clipping and drawing; then they started hiding features behind paywalls and limiting access to multiple devices unless you were willing to pay the fine.

Notion: A great idea in theory, but I spent too much time trying to make it visually appealing than using it properly. Everything lives online; and a great fear of losing the data.

Obsidian: Again, great idea in theory. Heavy learning curve. Very minimal guided setup, a plugin ecosystem, complex advanced features. Data is stored offline, can sync between devices with Dropbox.

Nota: A self-made text only environment I created that is essentially the Notepad application on Windows but allows tags and links. Also included text formatting and simple mathematical calculation where I could create a check registry. iOS app works on both iPhone and iPad, plus a Windows executable. Everything syncs through Dropbox. A little buggy at this time. Still attempting to patch.

The universe keeps smashing things together, and occasionally invents an entirely new solid while doing it. Nuclear detonations have produced odd glasses and previously unknown crystalline combinations inside scorched test debris. Lightning can fuse soil into branching tubes of glass called fulgurites, trapping minerals in arrangements they would never adopt during a respectable afternoon. Hypervelocity impacts do something even ruder. They squeeze, heat, fracture, melt, and quench rock within seconds, sometimes forcing atoms into dense structures usually found deep inside Earth. It’s a big bang, though not quite the Big Bang, and considering all of the above, I can only assume kryptonite is a serious quality-control failure from an alternate dimension..