My process is that all new notes go to my default notebook (Inbox)
I use a script to move the notes to my Filing notebook
At the same time, the script also assists with tag assignment
>>if I stopped tagging, I wouldn't replace that with an increased # of notebooks. That would just replace one tedium with another.
That's smart; tag or notebook it's basically the same thing
>>search function ... Especially if the tag is a word that appears in the same document
That works, but I would want to identify the word as a tag
I prefix the word with a character, for example - this is a xTag
and I search for xTag
(A tip I learned from @gazumped)