vim-journal

Check out vim-journal [1] if you really want to take this to the next level. The plugin’s kaleidoscopic colour functionality visually incentivizes writing in list format constantly. The colours are enjoyable to look at, and you get more of them on your screen each time you indent a list item. which - makes you organize your thoughts differently - because - the more colour, the better - e.g. - you’ll want to write like this [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-journal

As someone who lives in a terminal, I find @junegunn’s “journal” markup format a lot more pleasing to the eyes than Markdown — holy kaleidoscopic colours, batman. Bonus: in a weird way, the colours of journal trained me to love lisp. [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-journal

I still use vimwiki. It has a few warts, but since I'm comfortable with it (as in when you learn some of the leader commands, it becomes more powerful) and files are saved to Dropbox, it makes work and home note taking convenient. It's particularly nice in that if you are already in vim; <leader>ww will open the wiki index. https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki I've also been doing some note taking with :set filetype=journal in use with junegunn's nice syntax. https://github.com/junegunn/vim-journal