Why organization is important in Zettelkasten

Simply shoving a bunch of notes in a binder with no way to intelligently sort or look any of it up later results in the effective loss of that information. It’s no different from writing yourself a paper note, and putting it into a lit fireplace. The entire purpose of Zettelkasten notetaking is to make small, discrete, connected, and searchable notes that come together to form a larger concept; rather than making a single, large, monolithic, heavily edited document or set of documents to describe that concept, where information can be lost in the noise; or making undocumented, disconnected, variable length, standalone notes without context that do not come together to form a meaningful whole.