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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/... by superkuh on Saturday April 04, 2020 @12:33PM (#22779320)
Every text editor has search. Tags are just words. If you put the text into the text file it is automatically a searchable "tag". If you want you can put some markup around it but it's really not needed.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/... by awinter-py on Saturday April 04, 2020 @01:00PM (#22779554)
fair point

only thing I can think of that I'd want that grepping doesn't provide is some ability to define multiline sections that get captured in a search

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/... by rovr138 on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:10PM (#22782918)
I mean, grep will find content in those sections but won’t be limited to those.

To limit it, if you devote the first 3 lines to title, summary, tags

You could extract the first 3 lines of each file and grep those.

If not, if they have a prefix,

    title: 
    summary:
    tags:
You could grep those first then grep the output.

    grep -E ‘title:|summary:|tags:’ | grep ‘query’
A simple script can be built.
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