For organizing a large collection of items, searching is preferred to sorting. With sorting, you must assume how you will want to access the information in the

For organizing a large collection of items, searching is preferred to sorting. With sorting, you must assume how you will want to access the information in the future and put the item in a bucket. That assumption can be wrong, or you can know that something fits in multiple buckets. A particular medical bill could go in buckets "Bills to Pay", "Provider X", or "Tax-related Bills". Tagging (multi-attribute) is superior to sorting (single attribute, equivalent to a single folder/bucket). You could assign all the above tags to the example medical bill. Tagging really helps when the search engine cannot extract enough information to query on. Especially for short texts or non-textual items, adding contextual tags may be necessary for searchability.