Ask YC: How do you organize and manage your daily contents?

Like many HN members I love generating ideas, and I write them down whenever one pops up, wherever I can. Most of the time I just save them as txt files. Sometimes, I save them to Google docs or email it to myself. In addition to my own content generation, I also save useful links to code reference and insightful articles by emailing to myself or using delicious.

As the result, my inbox is filled with my own notes and reminder of things to do, my google docs documents keep piling up (about 300 right now), my desktop is cluttered with text files since I want to keep my recent ideas visible so that I can see them (when there're alot of them I just drag and drop the non-interesting ones into a folder). Worse, these contents are scattered across different places: in my local drive, on google docs, my inbox, delicious account.

It is becoming increasingly impossible for me to both intuitively save my contents and make them easily accessible. I'm trying to come up with some kind of process to save and access my notes/ideas/references and just wonder how HN members deal with this problem?