What do you think about the lack of tags or categories in this blog?

It's been five months since I gave up using tags and categories on this blog. Since then I've added Google Custom Search to the right-hand column as a way for readers to find entries on topics they want to read about.

I got rid of the categories and tags because choosing them during the composition of a blog entry was too cumbersome (or at least it is in Movable Type). I like the simplicity of just having entries and archives.

That and the fact that I had hundreds of categories — and not terribly well-organized categories either. The other thing I hated about tags and categories in Movable Type was that they seemed to only go back so far. It was just the most-recent entries in a particular category/with a particular tag. I wanted everything. Or nothing.

Aside from the monthly archives accessible from the left-hand column, at the bottom of the blog home page there's a little link called archives that leads to a monster page with every entry ever written in the history of Click. What I usually do is search that page for keywords to see how often I've written about a particular topic.

Do you miss categories and tags? Are you OK without them? Did you even notice? (It's perfectly OK if you didn't.)