About obsolete permalinks: Surely a variant of the relink plugin could help maintain bread-crumbs for obsolete links:
Whenever relink does its thing, have it offer to create a dictionary-tiddler entry pairing old-name and new-name; then have a filter-condition ViewTemplate element show up at the bottom of old-name tiddlers, where the new-name tiddler is transcluded (or linked-to) -- perhaps pre-pending a note explaining that the old "Bombay" is now called "Mumbai"... At first, I was worried about the case where I change tiddler title from "Bombay" to "Mumbai" and then later generate a different one called "Bombay" -- but there, too, I might be interested in seeing such a ViewTemplate addition! After all, if I ever had shared a permalink to #Bombay, some signposts around the changing namescape could be useful! -Springer On Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 9:09:07 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > This is such an awesome thread. > > On Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 9:04:07 AM UTC-3 Soren Bjornstad wrote: > >> *Walt,* the thing that bugs me most about the “immutable title/ID” idea >> is that unless your notes are also going to be immutable, the *content* of >> a note can still change so much as to make the reference not effective >> anymore. So I don't see much point in bothering, as long as you can avoid >> having links break. Presumably the thing you were looking for won't move so >> far away from the updated note that you'll be unable to find it, anyway >> (probably not more than one link away). >> >> > Hence why I have an awful lot of love for relink. I would have a rough > time without it. No broken (internal links) with Relink. > > >> It is a good point on external links breaking, though. It would be cool >> if you could set up redirects within TW, so that you could at least have an >> incoming link to an old title go somewhere somewhat relevant. I guess you >> could just leave the old title with a link to the new one, but without an >> obvious way to distinguish redirect tiddlers from other tiddlers, they >> would probably get in your way and make you think they were the “real” >> tiddlers all the time. >> >> > Link rot. Redirects is a possibility. I much prefer UID fields and > providing links to a Tiddler in some TiddlyWiki with a "UID" reference. > (related thread: A Prototype of UID's for stable permalinks > <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/l2Mwu3pOAXw/m/fuvWrwpDBwAJ>) > > So if I want to provide folk with a link to a specific tiddler in some > TiddlyWiki, in a way that allows me to change the tiddler title willy-nilly > without breaking the link, I would give folk this: > > > https://tiddlywiki-programming.neocities.org/CJ_TiddlyWikiProgramming.html#:[uid[2]] > > <https://tiddlywiki-programming.neocities.org/CJ_TiddlyWikiProgramming.html#:[uid[2]]> > > For some reason, I prefer this than setting up redirects. > > -- 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/c4a1eeb4-d9db-4766-ae18-67dc82a0dbc7n%40googlegroups.com.
