[ebertucc]

> It's the complete lack of organizational structure, other than date, that make my log files so useful.

A thread here about a week ago on bookmark management reinforced this idea for me.[1] When it comes to general knowledge management, complex, predefined taxonomies don't feel worth the overhead when retrieval is so often ad hoc and messy. Grepping about in log files for keywords usually does the trick. Tags are nice, but like you say, getting good at including searchable keywords performs a similar function.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23228861