That is just be a convention though, and as long as the IDs are unique, it does not matter who sets them. John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Karl Voit wrote: > * John Kitchin wrote: > > > > There is not an issue using a human-readable id in :ID: as long as it is > > unique. It will store fine, link fine, etc... > > I also think so because I am only using human-readable :ID: without > any issue so far. > > However, the argument was that no human should set :ID: but use > :CUSTOM_ID: *instead*. See also the old thread I linked before. > > I'd prefer using manually written :ID: instead since migration would > not be trivial to me. > > -- > mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML to Org-mode: > > get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs < > > https://github.com/novoid/extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode + more on > github > > >