What do you guys use for note taking?

I feel like there are way too many ways to take notes now and I’m curious what people actually stick with.

Some people still swear by pen and a notebook. Others seem to live in Notion, Google Docs or OneNote. Then there's the whole AI note taker/recorder side with stuff like Plaud, Otter, Notta, Granola, Fathom etc.

I've bounced between a few different methods and still haven't really found one that works for everything.

Handwritten notes are nice when I actually want to remember something, but terrible for searching later. Notion is good for keeping things organized, but I can waste way too much time setting it up. Google Docs is simple but mine always turns into a graveyard of random documents.

Note takers seem useful for meetings or lectures where you don't want to spend the whole time typing, but I'm not sure I'd want to use one for everything either.

So what do you actually use day to day?

Pen and paper? Notion? OneNote? Google Docs? Some recorder/note taker? Or a mix depending on what you're doing?