The redirect attribute

I just noticed the type=redirect attribute on Fargo. This may help with the problem I was musing about recently--trying to find a way to keep all the advantages of a blog's chronological organization while picking up on an outliner's advantage in organizing content around the shape of ideas.

So you blog every day about your work as it unfolds, and maybe you build an audience and some comments and collaboration--all to the good. But some of those entries make sense together outside of the timeline, in an idea-based organization like many a nonfiction book chapter. So revise a few of those posts and repost them outside the timeline, in an idea-based order.

And then maybe change the attributes on the original posts--click on the Fargo suitcase and add type=redirect as an attribute, add the URL, and send any visitor to the posting's new location. Now the content which was born in the timeline resides in the idea zone.

Is that practical? I don't know. Ideally, would I like the timeline to remain in place on my blog? Yes, probably. But somewhere in the intersection of outliner design and workflow habits I suspect there is a pretty good way organize through both chronology and ideas.


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By Ken Smith, Friday, July 12, 2013 at 9:45 AM.