[bstpierre]

Agree with sibling comments; tags aren’t worth much to me.

The best outcome I’ve had for finding stuff in notes related to a particular concept is just by grepping through my notes, which are just plain text (and/or markdown) files, in a directory, that I “manage” with vim. If I know that I want something to be findable in the future I just make sure to sprinkle some keywords in the note. Since it’s just my notes and it doesn’t need to conform to any formal system, I can also drop images into the dirs (diagrams, screenshots, etc) and either link them from markdown or just name them so they come up in a ‘find’.

For a long time this even worked well when I had irc logs saved near the notes so I can grep them too, because I often remember having a conversation but not the details. But now with less irc and more slack/etc this isn’t as fruitful.