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I use Scrivener and it's awesome. You can make independent notes per chapter, there's room to storyboard, you can do so much. My absolute favorite feature is that you can write chapters and drag them around. I plan a skeleton plot then just kinda connect the dots as I grow a novel, so it's really helpful to be able to see the superstructure of the plot as it develops. Relevant notes pop up in the chapter where I need them, and I keep a whole separate section with character details, motivations, relationships, etc. It's so good at keeping everything organized, which is a challenge while growing a novel. It's leaps and bounds better than using a simple word processor, and you won't really understand until you use it why that is. I've only been using it for my last six books, but it's changed the way I write and plot. I'm sure I use it in a very simple way, and that there's much more you can do, but it's transformed my workflow. Oh, and if you do nanowrimo, it has built in integration that syncs with their website and keeps you on track for your monthly wordcount, but now that nano is dead you'll be on your own, but that was cool.
Honestly just get Scrivener and watch a tutorial on it. It's fucking amazing.