What you note down is highly particular to how you think. Under-taking notes can be a pain, but many underestimate how much time wasting there can be in over-taking notes as well.

recording sessions. I use time-stamps corresponding to a running clock on my recording software, OBS, which I can later refer back to when editing.

I use a program called ObsidianMD. Typically I will have a main research article that links to sub-articles on various sources. As I find them, I just dump the links in there and later on will create the sub-articles where-in I take the notes. For games, I usually make sub-articles on the