let me try to explain it by listing some of the things I want to do:
Submit random thoughts, notes, facts, and to-do tasks of any sort and at any time.
Tag each of these submissions freely.
Manage these tags centrally.
Associate meta-data with submissions and tags.
Search, filter, and sort submissions. I want lots of power here.
Display views of submissions (including within searches) in a hierarchy.
Create said hierarchies easily out by ordering relevant tags.
I'm thinking towards some kind of desktop program that allows me to quickly do all of these things. A web service could also work, too, but it will need offline capabilities. I don't want to have to pay for this, if that's possible.
Also, as I know regex and SQL, I wouldn't mind solutions involving the use of either.
