Feb 12, 2026 • 1 min • Updated Feb 12, 2026
Practical Tagging for Research Notes
A low-friction tagging approach for a personal knowledgebase that still scales.
workflow notes detection
A research blog becomes useful when you can find things again.
Rule of thumb
Use tags for concepts, not for formats.
- Good:
yara,edr,persistence,windows - Avoid:
markdown,writeup,blog
Minimal taxonomy
Pick 8–12 tags you actually use. Everything else becomes a search term.
Example
If you’re writing about Windows event logs for detection, you might tag it:
windowstelemetrydetection
ABOUT
7mergen — threat research, DFIR, and detection engineering. I write concise notes that are easy to reuse under pressure.