Notes apps: simple and searchable vs. feature heavy?

I just searched through my notes for something I’m pretty sure I wrote down a while ago.

Couldn’t find it.

There are probably 200+ notes in there now, and most of them are basically “remember this,” links, random ideas, things I was looking into, etc.

This is where simple notes apps start annoying me. But then I try a more advanced one and suddenly I’m spending time deciding where every note belongs.

Do you actually organize your notes properly, or have you found an app that makes finding old stuff easy without all the extra work?