Write notes the way you always do — structure comes out afterwards

If you're going to record what you tried, what you really want to write is something close to a flowchart: what you used, how you tried it, what came out. Keep that machine-readable and you can replay or compare runs later. The value is obvious. But writing a flowchart for every attempt is heavy work. While you're actually trying things, you'd rather scribble a sentence. Pure prose, on the other hand, is hard to pull machine-readable structure out of afterwards. Can I write loose prose and still