I search both WITH tags, and without. But mostly without, because I find that inputting any tag as a filter on search stops the system from finding ANYTHING.
When I remove the (very relevant) tag, only then can I find the note in the dropdown options, BUT, as mentioned, EN won't navigate to that note when I click on it.
@IanFM had the suggestion to search instead through then "Switch To" function, and this seems to work quite well.