It's easier (for me) to use shorter links
It's been some time since I started to use Vimwiki. And there are some problems I keep having. For example, unlike Obsidian, there is no auto-completion. So when I write a link to another note I should know its name by heart. That also means that I should type it out entirely.
Now it's not a problem for index.md.
But when I decided to name my file The_Odin_Project-Join_the_Odin_Community.md that's something else.
It's quite hard to remember the exact phrasing of a name.
That's one thing that I learned about vim: big file names = harder times to remember them
Derek Sivers is using short links for his blog post. I always wondered why he did so. And maybe that's why? Because I know that he is using Vim He may have given those files a shorter name because it's easier when using Vim? Or when using the Command Line Interface. Well, I'm not in his mind, so I don't know1.
I'll start to do this as well anyway. Since I am using the CLI2 more often now. It will make it easier to maintain my wiki.
Update: Derek actually wrote a post about short urls↩
CLI means Command Line Interface.↩