Can you help me with an information storage and retrieval problem?

I have more than 2000 YouTube videos saved in 65 playlists. I would like to search for particular videos, but YouTube does not make it easy.

So I thought about doing something like this:

1) Create a document that would list every saved video with its URL.

2) Create a preliminary list of descriptive tags for the videos.

3) Begin the task of tagging each entry on the video listing in the document , adding new tags when necessary.

4) Find an application that would allow me to search the document using Boolean operators and parentheses.

Although Step 3 will be time consuming, I understand what I would be doing there.

However, I'm very unsure of myself with regard to step 4. A librarian suggested that I use Evernote, while an online search came up with a spreadsheet as the appropriate application for my purposes.

I have never used Evernote ( I don't even know what it is!), and am not familiar with spreadsheet operation, being more of a pencil and paper gradebook bloke.

I am not a tech person, have only a limited knowledge of information storage and retrieval, and would prefer not to use Microsoft or Google applications on my Linux desktop. I would also prefer not to have to buy anything.

Does anybody have any suggestions for step 4?

In addition, please don't hesitate to tell me if I am thinking about my YouTube searching problem in the wrong way and that I need to adopt a wholly different approach to solving it.

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AOL sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5 Billion

Bending Spoons, the company behind Evernote, Meetup, StreamYard and WeTransfer is acquiring AOL from Yahoo!'s new owner, Apollo Global Management, for $1.5 Billion.

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