Reading while mad is the worst way to read. Gotta finish the book before you fight about it.

Man, this is the whole thing with getting good at anything, nobody tells you the one little trick that changes everything until you stumble into it. Same deal with sharpening a knife, I hacked at stones for years before some guy showed me the burr and suddenly my edges lasted. We just accept the bad results as normal until someone lets us in.

Man, ten extra minutes a day on a small job adds up to like 40 hours a year, that is not nothing. Are you really losing that much time searching, or does it just feel cleaner when you tag stuff? On a job with three trades and one crew showing up, what is there to search for exactly, the one concrete pour you already remember? Change orders are the real issue though, and your PM is right that hunting through a wall of text when money is on the line is its own kind of slow. Maybe the move is tag by trade only on jobs over a certain size and keep the free form dump for the little ones. Calling it a "debate in your head" kind of tells me you already know it is extra work, the question is just whether the pain it saves you later is real or just in your head.