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From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Karl Voit <news1142@karl-voit.at>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Properties ID vs. CUSTOM_ID (was: Automatically Generating IDs From Title and Date)
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 09:29:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ51ETrmtRtk_6TN-dDg16D3F43jmvD=JFz9Z7ijYb-+vhhX+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2016-12-22T11-00-17@devnull.Karl-Voit.at>

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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...

John

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On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Karl Voit <devnull@karl-voit.at> wrote:

> * Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> wrote:
> > * Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 12/18/16, Karl Voit <devnull@karl-voit.at> wrote:
> >>>   Usually, my IDs start with the current ISO day to enforce uniqueness
> >>>   and look like this:
> >>
> >> my understanding, which might be incorrect, is that custom id is for
> >> human-readable purposes, while id is for uuid.  although you could
> >> prepend to uuid.
> >
> > To me, using :ID: was straight forward since I never read about any
> > other ID when I began with Org-mode in 2011.
>
> Another argument:
>
> According to
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-depend.html
> I have to use :ID: properties and not :CUSTOM_ID: properties.
>
> ,----[ task with dependency to a generated ID ]
> | ** TODO a task
> | :PROPERTIES:
> | :BLOCKER: 6347hsfdl387ns43
> | :ID:
> `----
>
> ... in comparison to:
>
> ,----[ task with dependency to a manually written ID ]
> | ** TODO a task
> | :PROPERTIES:
> | :BLOCKER: contacting-customer-XY
> | :ID:
> `----
>
> I prefer the example with the manually written ID since it is human
> readable.
>
> --
> 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
>
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-22 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-25 12:43 org-depend: dependencies between TODO entries in different files Karl Voit
2016-08-25 14:44 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-08-25 15:11   ` Karl Voit
2016-12-08  6:44     ` Carsten Dominik
2016-12-08 10:16       ` Jorge Morais Neto
2016-12-08 11:11         ` Samuel Loury
2016-12-12 10:21         ` Jorge Morais Neto
2016-12-08 14:37       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-12-11 22:19       ` Christophe Schockaert
2016-12-12 11:57         ` Karl Voit
2016-12-12 13:57           ` Carsten Dominik
2016-12-12 15:17             ` Karl Voit
2016-12-12 22:23               ` Christophe Schockaert
2016-12-18 12:12               ` org-depend improvements: ID picker Karl Voit
2016-12-18 17:49                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-12-20 20:01                   ` a general " Karl Voit
2016-12-20 21:21                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-12-18 12:14               ` Automatically Generating IDs From Title and Date Karl Voit
2016-12-18 19:36                 ` Samuel Wales
2016-12-20 19:57                   ` Properties ID vs. CUSTOM_ID (was: Automatically Generating IDs From Title and Date) Karl Voit
2016-12-22 10:03                     ` Karl Voit
2016-12-22 14:29                       ` John Kitchin [this message]
2016-12-22 15:30                         ` Properties ID vs. CUSTOM_ID Karl Voit
2016-12-22 15:40                           ` John Kitchin
2016-12-22 19:23                             ` Christophe Schockaert
2016-12-22 15:54                           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-12-22 19:45                             ` Christophe Schockaert
2016-12-22 21:02                               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-12-22 21:31                                 ` Carsten Dominik
2016-12-22 21:39                                   ` Carsten Dominik
2016-12-22 21:40                                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-12-22 22:19                                     ` Christophe Schockaert
2016-12-22 17:10                           ` Samuel Wales
2016-12-22 17:13                             ` Samuel Wales
2016-12-18 12:17               ` org-depend improvements: TRIGGER in Combination With Set SCHEDULED Karl Voit
2016-12-18 12:18               ` org-depend improvements: Canceled Tasks Do Cancel Their Dependencies as Well Karl Voit
2016-12-12 19:25             ` org-depend: dependencies between TODO entries in different files Samuel Wales
2016-12-12 21:13               ` Karl Voit
2016-12-18 19:27                 ` Samuel Wales

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