@si this bug relates to splitting a tiddler into multiple tiddlers by 
pressing Alt+Enter.

So for instance the following results in 6 tiddlers if saved with 
Alt+Enter. The first keeps the original title but the 5 subsequent ones are 
new.

"a

b

c

d

e

f"



On Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 8:33:37 PM UTC+1 si wrote:

> >>> The underlying problem is that we are creating several tiddlers at the 
> same time via action-widgets, and the tiddler titles rely on a timestamp to 
> make them unique. However, the tiddlers are sometimes created so quickly 
> that they are not unique! 
>
> Just out of curiosity, why do you need to create two timestamped tiddlers? 
> Can't the text before the caret keep the title of the original tiddler, and 
> the rest of the text get a new timestamp?
> On Thursday, 3 December 2020 at 17:27:48 UTC [email protected] wrote:
>
>> So the bug that Dom reported is very interesting and others may find it 
>> of interest.
>>
>> The underlying problem is that we are creating several tiddlers at the 
>> same time via action-widgets, and the tiddler titles rely on a timestamp to 
>> make them unique. However, the tiddlers are sometimes created so quickly 
>> that they are not unique!
>>
>> There have been discussions on this group in the past on the merits of 
>> using timestamps for tiddler titles and this is a good reminder that they 
>> just aren't specific enough to serve as a proper unique identifier.
>>
>> I am going to have take a moment and think about the best way to resolve 
>> this. I know users prefer timestamps to randomly generated UUIDs so I have 
>> to consider if there is a middle ground.
>>
>>

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