Hearing Sparky talk about how he uses a random password to link to things reminds me of my system of using timestamps created by TextExpander that I talked about here.
I use this all the time, it’s just a simple keystroke and TextExpander creates it. Since it’s based on time and down to the second I don’t have to worry about repeating codes.
This is how I tag new sections in my journal documents.
— 08:05 PM {{Tuesday September 15, 2020}} (a20200915200522) .
It’s also makes searching for date based things a lot easier. If I wanted to find all my thoughts from today I would simply search for “a20200915”.