The assurance that you can just write without having to worry about where the note goes is so powerful.

Exactly this! Thank you!

And thanks for the suggestions, I will check them out!

Can you elaborate?

That sounds overly complicated to simulate, what you already have: a search function. (unless you are talking paperback, but then why subscribe to ObsidianMD :D)

Yes, but my folders were also long lists, which was very annoying. It doesn’t matter at some point, if you have 10 long lists or only one. You start using the built-in search function and indexing more and more anyway.