Do you use deft-mode along with org-mode, or as an alternative? Could you share some thoughts and experiences? I'm a happy user of org-mode and I'd like to know more :).
Call me old fashioned, but I think notes of different topics shouldn't mingle with one another, and dumping all your notes in one file is a recipe for creeping disorder.
I use Deft for listing note files and performing full-text searches to find the right one. Deft is buggy and I would like something better, so most of the time I fallback to using Ido. I fuzzy-match filenames in the minibuffer and only open Deft when I have no choice.
Warning: The above functions might break Deft's ability to create new notes (it might already be broken). I create the files myself with C-x C-f (or <leader>f in Evil), because I like descriptive filenames.
Call me old fashioned, but I think notes of different topics shouldn't mingle with one another, and dumping all your notes in one file is a recipe for creeping disorder.
Depends on the volume of notes. Trying to do any kind of manual sorting on my notes is a full time job at this point.