i'm working on this utility that'll maintain a database of links in-between things like filesystem paths, web pages, etc.

the idea is that it'll model connections between things i'm working on, notes about them, related projects, etc., like:

~/code/project -> ~/notes/vimwiki/project.wiki

~/code/some-project -> https://some.project

so i can be editing a file or browsing a directory and hit a hotkey to see the bigger picture of what's related.

quandary: mostly it seems like storing URIs for the addresses will work, but i also want identifiers that're:

- unique within local system

- not tied to a specific path on the filesystem, in case that path changes

- not necessarily _globally_ unique

- human readable

a URN seems like what i want, but in formal terms not quite, since it's s'posed to be global, and there's all sorts of registry stuff.

should i make something up, or is there a better existing solution for this?

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@brennen Look up:

- content addressed storage
- DIDs

@brennen Another option is a design like tahoe-lafs's, but that's probably overkill