Dated snips are still an enigma to me. I'm unclear on what the roadmap is for the blogging side of SnipSnap. I will lay out my vision and hope that others feel compelled to help me clarify it.

A snip is given a date so it can appear in a weblog journal and be referenced by calendaring. The phrase "given a date" is key to my understanding; I figure the date of a snip is metadata that will be expressed via a label.

Distinct calendars and blogs, then, would reference all snips with date labels in the given namespace. Is this accurate?

UPDATE

With a build from 2003.06.25, I noticed that weblog entries work with namespaces, e.g. start/2003-06-25/1.

So, I created a start/cat, and it gets displayed along with date-titled entries in the start weblog, after the dated entries.

I want "cat" to be a weblog category, so I used the {weblog} macro in the body of start/cat to display all subsnips. This works as expected.

It also means that the start snip now displays the dated entries such as start/2003-06-26/1, then displays start/cat which includes start/cat/2003-06-26/1 (as a subsnip of start/cat), then displays start/cat/2003-06-26/1 (as a subsnip of start).

Wow. That's a mess.

I propose a solution: the {weblog} macro should only display snips with dates (presently that means yyyy-mm-dd titles), in order, regardless of sub-namespace. Maybe there should be an "aggregate" parameter that toggles the display of sub-namespace dated snips.

This would be more elegant if dates were a label rather than a magic title.