Search works brilliantly for your own notes because you know what you're looking for. You wrote the notes. It fails for problems that you can't describe well th

Search works brilliantly for your own notes because you know what you're looking for. You wrote the notes. It fails for problems that you can't describe well though, especially if you don't know the technical jargon to search for. Directories and tags can work for that problem because you can easily see relationships like a hierarchy of folders, or what other tags a tagged item has. Tags and folders also act as a prompt to classify and organise things, which occasionaly leads to discovering how things are connected. "How to find stuff" is a space with many solutions to similar looking but subtly different problems.