[macedotavares]

Thanks!

If the URL shortener has an API, maybe you could write a script that keeps a record of every URL passing through it, and then run curl on those records with a cronjob or something.

I’m guessing you use a plain text editor for your notes and want to stick with it, but some note-taking apps, like Bear and Roam automatically hide the URLs in markdown links, so you could keep them as short as their titles. This would bypass the need for a URL shortener.

[geoelectric]

Definitely, if I were using rendered output primarily that'd make a ton of sense of course.

As you surmised, though, I use VS Code, vim, nvAlt, and iOS text editors as my primary tools (depending on setting) and actually create/read the journal in pure plaintext.

The markdown formatting is more so I can c/p rendered versions from a preview HTML page to Google Docs and other targets that understand rich text from clipboard but not markdown directly--I can create meeting minutes and whatnot from my notes very quickly that way.