Easier document lookup would be helpful to authors: ideas sought

[holdenweb]

At present there is a nascent but (like everything else) undocumented cacheing feature in the project. Given a document's id there are currently three operations you can perform:

• pull <document_id> reads the document through the Google Docs API and saves a copy in the cache as <document_id>.json.
• load <document_id> reads the document from the cache, parses it and produces HTML output in the cache as html/<document_id>.html.
• view <document_id> reads the document from the cache, parses it and sends the HTML output to stdout.

Document ids are not a natural format for human use, so some way of easily being able to find and reference a single document (and, who knows, maybe a collection of them as well) will be needed early in the lifetime of the project.

There are many possible ways to solve this problem. I'm happy to consider any contributions.