Re: IDs w/ human friendly component

[Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>]

Yes that is a fairly simple and obvious solution.

   -k.

On Sun, 2 Feb 2014, Daniel Clemente wrote:

>
> Have you tried changing the strange ID to the ID that you want? 
> (e.g. 7f3b531b-f1c9-41aa-854b-37235500495f → introduction). They 
> should be unique. I use my manually written IDs for some important 
> headers which I want to detect from outside org. In addition 
> there's CUSTOM_ID, but I think that's the id="…" you want in HTML 
> exports.
>
>
> El Sat, 1 Feb 2014 14:39:15 -0500 (EST) Ken Mankoff va escriure:
>>
>>
>> I've never cared that the ID field was not human friendly.
>>
>> But I've just learned about the Estimate Table where you can see your estimates
>> and actual clock time to complete tasks. If you want to see the estimates for
>> the current tree, you need to know the ID, which is not human friendly.
>>
>> It seems like with IDO mode, the first few characters or words of the title,
>> stripped of whitespace, could be pre- or ap- pended onto the ID, and then it
>> would be easy to select IDs. If this were how IDs were created, would this break
>> some other features? Do others see this as a good or bad thing? Or is there some
>> other way to tell the Estimate Table to work on the local tree.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>   -k.
>>
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