I've been taking notes for 2 years, zettelkasten-style, and 90% of them are just dumped in the same directory, without links or tags. If I'm looking for something and remember that I might have that in my notes, I just search for it.
That also implies that, when writing a note, I sometimes add a line with a few related keywords and synonyms.
I spent some time to build my own web-based markdown editor, and was using minisearch[0] to index and do fuzzy search on my notes. I've recently switched to Obsidian and plan to make a similar extension in the next weeks.
If you're on a Linux system and the notes are just text files a
grep -rn . -e 'search term'
is probably sufficient. Use
-rnw
If you're looking for whole words.
I've been taking notes for 2 years, zettelkasten-style, and 90% of them are just dumped in the same directory, without links or tags. If I'm looking for something and remember that I might have that in my notes, I just search for it.
That also implies that, when writing a note, I sometimes add a line with a few related keywords and synonyms.