I use the same system in Vim to browse source code. It's very powerful, very fast, works with any language and requires zero configuration.
From my `~/.gitconfig`:
[alias]
brt = "!git for-each-ref refs/heads --color=always --sort -committerdate --format='%(HEAD)%(color:reset);%(color:yellow)%(refname:short)%(color:reset);%(contents:subject);%(color:green)(%(committerdate:relative))%(color:blue);<%(authorname)>' | column -t -s ';'"
brt = "!git for-each-ref refs/heads --color=always --sort -committerdate --format='%(HEAD)%(color:reset) %(color:yellow)%(refname:short)%(color:reset) %(contents:subject) %(color:green)(%(committerdate:relative))%(color:blue) <%(authorname)>'"You'll need to set NOTES_DIR in your environment to wherever you want your notes to be stored. Then you can write `note something` to create or open $NOTES_DIR/something.md with your $EDITOR.
If you type "note" without parameter you'll start a search on all the note names, ordered by last use. If you type "note -f" it starts a full text search.
For best results you should have the fzf.vim's preview.sh somewhere in your fs, otherwise it'll use "cat" but it won't be as good looking (see FZF_PREVIEW in the script).
Hopefully despite being shell it should be readable enough to tweak to your liking.
Note that it was written and used exclusively on Linux, but I did try to avoid GNU-isms so hopefully it should work on BSDs and maybe even on MacOS with a bit of luck.
Also, I have a specific pattern to write some tags inside files that I can parse with ripgrep.
ls -sh ~/.cache/rga/
total 336M
336M data.mdb 4.0K lock.mdb
I’ve recently been playing with Recoll for full-text-search on content. Since it indexes content up front, the search is pretty fast. It can also easily accommodate tag metadata on files.
It would be interesting to consider how ripgrep based tools can fit into generically broad “search your database of content” workflows (as opposed to remember or go through your file system paths).