Josiah, I write these answers without reading the linked articles (I don’t have much time and writing the answers is quite time consuming with Google Translator).
> 467-1a INSOMNIA (sleep disorder) > 732-2c INSOMNIA , 1976 (film) > 1034-1a INSOMNIA, 1982 (film) > > > The point is this example is the shown "title" would be in the caption > field; the real Title is both a UID and human informative. > While learning about Zettelkasten, I realized that I think it’s best if the notes don’t have a name, or at least treat it separately from the UID, because if I change its content, its name might give incorrect information about it. For example, if I write a “986 Naming Notes in Zettelkasten” note and then realize later that this methodology doesn’t just work for Zettelkasten, I’d like to rename it “986 Naming Notes”. Therefore, I would like to use 986 as the title (which is never changes), and "Naming Notes in Zettelkasten" would be just a caption. A short UID is also good because e.g. if I make a graph from my notes, their display will be uniform and not as space consuming as if they had a human informative title. > The PROBLEM with going with an arbitrary UID (e.g. random nums; current > date-time) is it has *no semantic content*. > > Luhmann's approach was to have "titling" that is both a unique identifier > AND has some human meaningfulness > Even if a note has a name, in fact it will never be completely clear because its context determines what effect its content achieves. For example, if a note is titled "String," it says virtually nothing, because it could be related to programming as well as music. The context is mostly given by the text of the link pointing to it. If we just list the note names, it won’t be so clear why they’re included in a given context. Instead, you can use the text of the links to tell you how they relate to that topic. For example, if we only use their titles in an introduction to programming: * 123 How to write CleanCode? * 456 What makes the code stink, or what does the bad code smell like? If we explain the reason for the connection with links: * Examples of good coding techniques * Signs that warn of bad code Also, I don’t think it’s possible to give a title to every note because there’s something so abstract that it can’t be summed up in a few words. For example, give a title to your most adventurous dream. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ab922103-9daf-4ead-ad81-5f7c2012c4bb%40googlegroups.com.
