Relink finally showed up to the v5.3.x party, and it brought its friend: Relink-variables

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Thanks @Flibbles that gives me a lot to work with, but I will just illustrate the simple example to be addressed using relink, or some other rename handler.

If you use the currentTiddler title as the index to a JSON Data tiddler as I did in Tips and commentary - Notes on tiddlers stored in a data tiddler it will look like this;

{
    "No-touch notes": "Original Idea",
    "view/edit-notes": "New example as given"
}
  • type = application/json

So in the above example and many other possible cases the title of a tiddler is the key

The above two tiddlers exist in my wiki “No-touch notes” and “view/edit-notes” (without the quotes).

  • It is true nothing defines the key as matching a title, and thus could be an appropriate subject of renames / relinks.
  • however I imagine we could nominate it’s tiddler $:/note-database as being a data tiddler whose primary key is a title and thus should be renamed.

I think this is an example of a common pattern that may be used more and more often given the primacy of the tiddler title, which is of course a very powerful feature in relink already.

Going forward

  • I am hoping to achieve something related with a tiddler that has the compound title
    tiddler1 & relationshipname & tiddler2 that will be renamed if tiddler1 or tiddler2 is renamed.
    • In this case these titles may only be “backlinks”, or named in a fieldname value.

Absolutely no expectations/pressure from me, I am just raising it with you as you are the expert :nerd_face: