[tombuur]

This thread inspired me to go looking, and I came across a tagging Windows only freeware:

http://lunarfrog.com/

You add your own tags, search by combining tags, add and edit tags. Also you can use select all and tag a whole directory with the same tags if needed.

I will do some testing and see if it is useful. But I guess you all know there is the risk of just falling back to recording and leaving it there in the mess. Maybe it all stems from the fact that creativity is a right brain activity and ordering a left brain one.