TRS-80 writes: > On 2020-09-10 21:06, Ihor Radchenko wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Is there any particular reason why you even need to display :ID: value >> to >> the user? If only id: links are concerned, link description can be made >> short and human-readable. >> >> Best, >> Ihor > > Yes, most of the time I expect I will be using Orgmode double bracket > style > links which will, as you say, hide the id: from the user, allowing to > replace it with whatever desired text in the form of the link > description. > > However, I just (strongly) prefer the shorter "ISO-like" ID for many > reasons, as already mentioned (shorter, meaningful, etc.). I just find > that style much, much more elegant. > > Besides, as an ID, they are plenty "Unique" for my use case, with the > default minute resolution (however even that, is configurable in my > implementation, by way of a time-format variable, should anyone need > more). > > I suppose if we ever get to a world where people start linking to each > others' individual publicly published zettel, I may regret the decision. > However Ted Nelson has already been working on such a thing for some > decades already, and we are still not there yet, so I don't think I will > need to worry about that any time soon. ;) Even if so, it would be a > very > small implementation change anyway. > > Cheers, > TRS-80