On the whole life is too short. Better to be doing than writing up.
On those occasions when I do write up something I use MS word and create a Master document with the words, linked pictures, from a photo sharing site and my local hard drive. Once I have that simple document, I then cut and paste the info into other places to share it. Such as a trip report here, or on walking highlands, or on a car forum.
Much as I love maps and mapping I don't save many routes as GPX files. I just don't get the point of that one. Too much detail to ever go back and use in the future, for me personally. I do plot pretty much every walk I do, after I have completed it. Because I enjoy logging the basic stats distance ascent, and weather, time taken and conditions, to compare with the log books I started 45 years ago, on paper, for all my outdoor activities. But crucially I delete the plots once I have the few bits of data I need from them. Keeping the plots would be like keeping a collection of old magazines, after you have read them. Sometimes some one else may wish to share one, but your never going to read most of them ever again, so little point. I keep certain special routes, I have may be 30 saved. But the thousands of others I have plotted over the years are simply logged as a single line on a spread sheet, for comparison, then deleted.
MrsG uses, Photographs logged in the sequence they were taken. That creates a pretty good reminder of any walk.
May be if I had more time on my hands. But I like to think I would just be out more if that was the case.