Sympathies - I come from a database management background, so have patience with the work involved in maintaining a lot of records, so maybe my tolerance is unusually high; but I'm currently in the throes of writing a post about a two-tier note system that I'm now using. I have Workflowy as a 'short' notes / links / to-do repository, with Evernote for the more detailed stuff. Works for me, as minimalist does for you. Whatever gets the job done!