notes without tags or folders
shizumu has no tags, no folders, no filing question. that's not a missing feature. it's two questions taken off the front of every sentence you write.
the two questions that stall a first sentence
how should this be structured, and where does it go. which folder, which tag, which template. most note apps ask both before you've had the thought, and you answer with a guess that gets filed alongside it forever. the guess is usually wrong by the time you need to find the thing again, because the words you'd search for later aren't the words you filed it under.
the wrong guess isn't the real cost though. the real cost is that you spent the first thirty seconds on the filing instead of the thought. thinking happens while you produce the sentence, and anything standing in front of the sentence is standing in front of the thinking. shizumu answers neither question, so the sentence is the first thing that happens.
what you do instead
two things, both cheap, both after the fact. pinning a line, a note, a board, that survives on its own, a pointer back into the day it came from. trailing a page, when something belongs to more than a day: a project, a book, a job search. neither asks you to name a category up front. a pin is just the line itself, marked. a trail is just a place a page is added to.
everything else lives in one search over everything you've written, not sorted into folders first. that's what memory is: not a filing cabinet, one drawer.
structure without a system to learn
none of this means a plain wall of text. the page has real tools on it and they're all on the keyboard: type / for a table, a chart, an outline, a block of code. type @ to reach a page, a pin, or a trail. ctrl+k opens the trail index, ctrl+p pins from the cursor, ctrl+f finds, alt and the arrows move a block. the shortcuts panel names your own modifier key rather than someone else's. structure arrives as you write it, and there's no system to learn before you start.
the short way back
not filing has to cost something at retrieval, and this is where it doesn't. put a page on a trail and the pins you already kept there arrive on the page with it, so the context you kept meets you instead of waiting to be found. @ reaches a page or a pin from inside a sentence. search runs over block titles, not just body text, so a named table or a checklist is findable by its name. you never filed anything, and you still get the thing back.
the trade
a page you didn't pin doesn't follow you into tomorrow's page, and you likely won't go looking for it again, though nothing is deleted and search still finds it if you ask. in exchange, writing starts faster, because there's no decision to make before the first sentence.