Yes, totally! I feel like this Zettelkasten technique is a step in the right direction with the idea of linking notes, but relying on these long, random looking strings to do the linking seems wrong. Human-readable tags that serve as links seem better, but I suppose that's more of just a software issue, not a technique issue. My ideal note-taking software for what you're describing would be: 1. platform independent (or at least very easy to use on multiple platforms, phone + desktop) 2. your "organically determined hierarchy of notes" idea ... a clustering map of some sort. 3. links via human-readable tags 4. FOSS

I'm guessing this exists already but that I just need to look harder.