In my "personal digital garden evolution" I've reached the timeline-level taxonomy or, with Emacs/org-mode/org-roam/org-attach etc: - new textual entries (head

In my "personal digital garden evolution" I've reached the timeline-level taxonomy or, with Emacs/org-mode/org-roam/org-attach etc: - new textual entries (headings) goes into monthly notes ($org-roam-directory/timeline/year/$month-name.org), they might attach files or not of course. Attached files are generally directly linking in the heading/inside the textual content of the heading for a single-click quick access and glance view. Doing so allow to have not too many too small files, not too big ones who operate slowly; - another subdir of org-roam-directory is for "topics", a note per topic, linking or org-transcluding (slow and a bit limited but still useful) the collected entries in timeline style; - another is workdir where I craft my catalogue (using org-mode drawers created with templates to allow easy org-ql queries) and queries to explore my notes in different view. It's not as easy as TiddlyWiki transparent transclusion but allow a certain degree of practical usability, fine grain selection and ease composition. MOST of my files and config live or as org-attachments or tangled from org-mode. So yes, taxonomy is hard, but we have tools to master them IF we decide to discover them and invest time in improving our digital garden for real instead of leaving classic mess of files hoping for some miracle "application" that solve automagically all issues. Unfortunately due to the lack of interests by most leave such systems too little developed to be as effective as they can... My personal experience is: - we need taxonomy anyway, just mere full-text searching with extras à-la-google do suffice for a certain percentage but fails more than that; - we need taxonomy that are a bit flexible in storage terms and can change at a slow peace; - we need integration, witch is NOT possible in ALL modern software, we need for that classic desktops where the OS was a framework/live image and anything is just a module, a bit of code, of it. With end-user programming concepts because no UI can be effective enough in "no code" style and no "modern programming" styles are usable for user programming. A bottomline: people should learn a bit about information management at school, from how a library or a pharmacy organize books/meds on their shelves to book's indices and personal information archives. Nothing exaggerated but the bare minimum to understand how to manage data, digital and physical in various forms for a lifetime...