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From: TRS-80 <trs-80@isnotmyreal.name>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Any reason not to generate my own custom ID value (NOT CUSTOM_ID)?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:33:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7689df3cbba5ea4afec672d80f99c590@isnotmyreal.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJcAo8uhhoXqu8GJRriAxSREj3cL1XBTvdo0okTMaOO1MWnFzw@mail.gmail.com>

On 2020-09-10 18:20, Samuel Wales wrote:
> this or something similar has definitely been discussed on this
> mailing list.  so you are not alone.

Yes, I also thought certainly this must have been discussed before.  I
did try searching the list, but I think the relevant search terms are
too common, short ("ID", etc.) and/or too close to unrelated things
(i.e. CUSTOM_ID when I am looking for "custom ID", etc.) to produce
any good results.  Or maybe my search-fu is just bad.

> although i undersatnd the whole thing as readable id's.  dunno if that
> is the prupose.

Essentially, yes, more readable.  But also shorter, and perhaps most
importantly, /meaningful/.

> maybe something like a timestamp and then the usual id would give you
> pretty good uniqueness.

The uniqueness I outlined in OP (down to minute) is plenty enough for
my use-case.  The /last/ thing I want to do is to go the other way, and
make the ID even longer!

I do appreciate all the replies so far.  However as I plan on relying
on this to implement some quite critical functionality for a package I
am working on (a sort of Zettelkasten / TiddlyWiki in Orgmode if you
will) I would feel a lot more comfortable with some additional
reassurences that what I am planning is not some crazy or bad idea.

Thanks,
TRS-80


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-10 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-10 20:02 Any reason not to generate my own custom ID value (NOT CUSTOM_ID)? TRS-80
2020-09-10 22:00 ` Gustav Wikström
2020-09-10 22:16   ` TRS-80
2020-09-13 20:18     ` Bastien
2020-09-10 22:20 ` Samuel Wales
2020-09-10 23:33   ` TRS-80 [this message]
2020-09-11  1:06     ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-11  1:31       ` TRS-80
2020-09-11  7:51         ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-13 20:19           ` Bastien
2020-09-23  7:19           ` Bastien
2020-09-23  7:43             ` [PATCH] " Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-23  7:48               ` Bastien
2020-09-23  8:08                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-23  8:30                   ` Bastien
2020-09-23  8:40                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-23  8:48                   ` Bastien
2021-04-25 14:19                   ` Bastien

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