This wouldn’t work for me for two reasons:

My experience with people is they don’t use tags as they were intended.

Use both notebooks and tags. You don’t have to remember all your tags, but when searching for a group of related items, they shine, whereas remembering a text string common to all those items may not even be possible— there may be no such string.

I agree. I started out with EN using an extensive system of tagging. As I progressed, I got lazy, and then just stopped using them except for 2 or 3 that are distinctly meaningful. Text searching is where it’s at. I’d rather type the word “meeting” in the Note title than have to remember to TAG it as a meeting. It’s…

Getting rid of tags altogether screams of extremism. Sure it’s possible to overload yourself with notes, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be used.

I get the spirit of what this is trying to say. Over analyzing is a hindrance to creativity. However the summary and conclusion are off base. Of course throwing all of your paper into a giant pile is great for not worrying about what you’re creating.

Great, so now I have to move back to using different Notebooks to organize everything, after the previous “world-renowned” productivity “expert” told me get rid of them and move to using tags. Go figure!