Random page

[palol]

Random navigation

For "serendipity" ~ randomly skipping through a garden is really fun. An easy way to do that is to route /random to re-direct the website to another valid page on the website (even hidden).

Notes

• The random selection respects the dg-publish frontmatter setting
• Includes proper error handling and fallback behavior
• Uses Eleventy's collections.note to dynamically generate the list of available notes
• Additional details posted here: https://www.paologabriel.com/swamp/random-navigation/
• Also includes details on adding a "button"
• Example of hidden interaction ~ I hid a picture of my cats on the same website above. can you find it?
• Could be a toggle in the plug-in, but that's beyond my skill set; also conflicts with a published page named "random"

[oleeskild]

Perfect! The one thing I'm a bit concerned about here is that it will cause an error if people have a note named random. Perhaps it could have a link that has characters that are invalid for an obsidian note. Or something else to make sure it doesn't break peoples sites just because they have a note called random, which I assume i common.

Do you have any good ideas on how to solve this?

[palol]

Perfect! The one thing I'm a bit concerned about here is that it will cause an error if people have a note named random. Perhaps it could have a link that has characters that are invalid for an obsidian note. Or something else to make sure it doesn't break peoples sites just because they have a note called random, which I assume i common.

Do you have any good ideas on how to solve this?

Simplest solution might be to make the route /~random/. I think the special character "_" also works.

[oleeskild]

Looks good to me! Merging it in. Thanks 🙌