I think I did not make myself clear. I mentioned creation date and modification as examples of the kind of dates that are not really meaningful to me. The meaning I associate with the tags is the date in which the text added to the note was meaningful to me.
For example:
- I have a note to track the status of a certain issue (e.g: car accident and insurance). Each time there is an update on the issue, I edit the note to add information, and “date-tag” the corresponding paragraph.
- I discover a new fact, or have a new insight about something for which I had already a note, so I edit the note to add the information and “date-tag” the paragraph.
- I find a new interest, so I start a new note for it, and “date-tag” this new note.
This way, when I later search for a tag like: #date/2021/10 I get a listing of the kind of things that occupied my time/mind in that month. A kind of personal “Zeitgeist”.
I see this as a kind of journaling, without having to write specific journal notes.