Pasting links - unique code only

GBC

Hi all, very new to all of this but hugely excited by the possibilities of this method. I've spent a few days reading the blog posts and the forum and want to check my understanding about pasting links to zettel notes in the Archive.

Following what I think is Christian's approach, I'm using the naming convention yyyymmddhhmm plus a short descriptive title. So let's say my Zettel is named '201910281114 Issue for consideration'.

I noticed when Christian was doing his video on his book processing that he pasted a link only to [[201910281114]] - and can see that by stripping out the descriptive bit of the title, which may change in later revisions, I guess, that link always points to that zettel no matter what it is renamed to.

Assuming I got that right, is there a quick way just to paste the ID of it, or is it a case of pasting in the full link and editing? In the video, Christian seems to do it so quickly and I can't tell if this is skilled practice or something I'm missing.

ctietze

The videos are sped up to 2000% at times, so no wonder Usually I paste the ID and title, i.e. the whole file name, that is when I don't have the ID on its own in my clipboard already. When you paste, the insertion point is put at the end of the pasted content, so I can backwards-delete whole words via Opt+Backspace. That reduces 201910281114 Issue for consideration to 201910281114 in 4 keystrokes: 3x Opt+Backspace to remove the words, and 1x backspae to remove the last whitespace after the ID.

GBC

Brilliant! Thanks so much. And thank you for providing this amazing resource (website AND the Archive) - it's literally transformed my studying in a matter of days.

Whilst I'm here - you mention somewhere in the help for The Archive that there's something to give you more information about keyboard shortcuts but I can't find it. I'm slowly beginning to work some out for myself just by using it, but am I missing being able to find a webpage or similar that lists them?