I had thought of doing a journaling/blogging add-on to Notanda, but after thinking about all that coding, I figured it might just as easily be accomplished like all the other articles here: saving 2005_07_27.txt plaintext in my usual local directory, to be uploaded with the others.

The wiki-link would then be a rather reasonable 2005_07_27, with 2005_07 for one of its tags — and which in turn would have 2005 for a tag as well.

I might want to filter these daily items out of the Index page at some point if they start to get too numerous.

Tangent: Eventually, I’d like the articles that are currently Category Pages (including the YYYY and YYYY_MM pages) to be treated a bit specially, including not being seen as updated by the feeds (somewhat confusing, I think).

So technically speaking, handling these daily pages would not be problematic. The real question comes down to what their purpose is, what need they would serve on the site.

In moving to what amounts to a stripped-down personal wiki system rather than a blog, I was in part reacting against what I see as the tyranny of the reverse-chronological blog arrangement. Most of what I want to write about does not necessarily fit into that format, or isn’t driven by considerations of time. (It was also a reaction against the simultaneous mainstream-dilution and rampant collective-ego Meaning(TM) inflation of blogs, bloggers, and blogging — but that’s another article altogether.)

Rui Carmo’s Tao of Mac — a frequent inspiration for this site — handles blogging with what are basically wiki articles about given days, with a ‘blog/yyyy-mm-dd’ naming convention. (He is running a heavily modified PHPwiki system.)

While I won’t be turning Celsius1414 back into a daily blog, I think there are particular moments in time that I would like to capture, coalescing them outside the amorphous WikiNow.

Anyway, these are just some potential ideas, brainstorming. It is also the beginning of a simple test of whether Notanda as it currently exists will handle date entries well enough. Which it seems to be doing.