Notion is too much for me, what do people actually use instead

Ok so everyone on here loves notion and i get why, it can do literally everything.
but every time i open it i end up spending 40 min messing with templates and zero minutes actually writing anything down.
i just want somewhere to dump random notes and to dos without having to design a whole system first. anyone found something simpler that still feels like it has some structure? or did you just eventually figure notion out and now it clicks.