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📓 garden/neil/what-if-links-werent-meant-to-be-prose.md by @neil

What if links weren't meant to be prose?

URL : https://subconscious.substack.com/p/what-if-links-werent-meant-to-be

Author : [[Gordon Brander]]

Interesting thoughts on wikilinks and other ways of linking.

Thoughts from Agora matrix:

@flancian

it seems /they-can-be-slugs?

at which point they seem actually the same shape as [[wikilinks which are phrases]], but harder to write the longer they are

I agree that the synonym problem is there for wikilinks, but I think doing things like [[canonical | what you want to render]] is just one way of 'solving' that

in the Agora I've been trying to not care about plurals/variations, assuming we will make them coalesce semantically/socially

that feels like the best solution to me right now and could work as a counter-argument to Gordon's position? not that this needs to be a debate, more like a dialogue :)

@doubleloop

I don't fully grok what the suggested problem is with wikilinks - but Gordon's got lots of good thoughts/provocations so worth considering! Like the idea of [[modeless markup]] is a good one, but no reason why wikilinks can't be that.

I don't think I would use a wikilink to link to an actual URL like in his example

My own current 'issue' is that wikilinks tend to push me to linking specifically to a concept, rather than linking a chunk of text to a concept… and quite often that text is an interesting piece of meta-info on the link

I used to do that but then stopped doing it in order to link specifically to node names

But maybe I should go back to [[wikilinks which are phrases]] and see what happens, I like your idea that these things will coalesce over time one way or another

Wikilinks which are phrases is kind of in line with [[Andy Matuschak]]'s ideas on [[titling evergreen notes]], also.

📖 stoas

public document at doc.anagora.org/what-if-links-weren-t-meant-to-be-prose
video call at meet.jit.si/what-if-links-weren-t-meant-to-be-prose

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