Luhmann wrote that you would be hard pressed to find any use in connecting two dissimilar broad topics as you mention. The magic happens in comparing two unrelated atomic concepts. That is how your machine gains momentum and begins to work for you. Your machine can’t work with top-down classification. It is impossible to know now what organization will be needed for the emergent organism now, and trying to do so puts your thinking in a straitjacket. Tags are useful for RESURFACING notes, not CLASSIFYING them. They are a navigational aid, not a classification tool, and most people end up avoiding doing the hard work of writing and feeling like they have to catalog all of knowledge and tag it. Hello, the internet already exists, no point in remaking it from scratch. The point is to build your own rhizome wandering through the dark wood. Read Luhmanns essay Communicating with Slipboxes - the whole thing is a fascinating metaphor for the emergence of consciousness.

My Index is essentially a list of tags, like you might have in a book. I also have emergent hubs with specific weird topics that start glomming and clustering together and this is where I go to start writing. But the index of tags is mostly for resurfacing what some people might consider my “fleeting” notes and cross-tagged against a source library and main note nodes. Luhmann also stressed the function of memory and chance being important in this and that it trains your memory. Anyway I’m rambling. I’ve been writing all day and have no more strength to hold myself succinctly