Shortening links?

Can you give me some examples of your long links? And perhaps the ideal way to shorten them?

It will help me design the “Smart Links View” of Todo.taskpaper:

I’m thinking of keeping the:

  1. domain
  2. last few words of link
  3. subdomain
  4. and first word(s) after domain

in that order, fitting as much as possible up to a certain character limit.)

This view will be read-only (the initial version, anyways):

  • You can view them in Todo.taskpaper’s links view…
  • and edit them in the built-in CodeMirror editor view…
  • OR edit the links as usual in any external Taskpaper app/editor (via Dropbox sync)

All the views will be synced together (and if Dropbox is enabled: with any external apps).