My first attempt at this was more elaborate -- rather than bash and saving to the file system, I was trying to do something with sqlite, and having a database backing each file of a project. The idea was that I could assign any row + column number as an ID, and then generate a connected moon from that. This was a cool idea, but so fragile as to be untenable. Plain text doesn't offer a great way to reference specific points in a file if that file is changing.

That... might actually be cool.