I like /techniques because it can be used for 'tools' and 'methods'.

Yeah!

I like techniques, as vj said and - it sounds the same in many other languages: tegniek, טכניקה, تقنية , Technik, teknîk, técnica, техника, τεχνική (Afrikaans, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Kurdish, Spanish, Russian, Greek) It doesn't work in Swahili, "mbinu", or Filipino "pamamaraan", but you can't get it all :)

techne does encompass tools and craft and art, and it's more what public lab does

i do like the simple english of 'tools' though

Wow i really appreciate these insights. Most of what we're doing is re-formatting, and so we're going to make sure /techniques and /methods can both be used to find this information.

There are steps to implement this in code in-progress here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/pull/1020

However, once it's in place, we can change which terms are the redirecting aliases and which are the resulting "final" URL and page title people see.

Thanks!