Hello all,

I've always found that the links in org-mode are basically

very clunky to try to use in a quick fashion.

To my understanding (see my other question about CUSTOM_ID

versus ID) it's a good practice to store either a CUSTOM_ID or ID

- (still can't grok the difference) and then store a hyperlink to that

CUSTOM_ID or ID.

By storing a hyperlink to CUSTOM_ID or ID my heading can change,

but this won't matter.  I can also move the heading to another file, and links

to it will still work.  

However, I find that it's pretty clunky to store a CUSTOM_ID or ID

for a heading, and then copy the link, and then paste it where I want to

use it.  Granted, it's not very difficult using org-store-link and org-insert-link,

but it's just not as easy as I would think it would be.

I've recently stumbled on Helm and was wondering if anyone has coded some

kind of function that would show me a list of my headings, and create a CUSTOM_ID

or ID for the heading and then copy a link to that heading so that I could easily paste it.

Let's say I'm typing some stuff and want to insert a link to another heading, I would

press some key combo and a helm search would come up.  I would find the heading that

I want to link to.  If the heading has a CUSTOM_ID property, then a link to that CUSTOM_ID

would be inserted at the text where my cursor is.  If there's not a CUSTOM_ID property perhaps a prompt for a CUSTOM_ID could pop up.  Once I enter the CUSTOM_ID, the link is created and copied to my cursor location / clipboard.

Has anyone coded such a plugin or am I missing some cool Helm-fu?

Thanks,

--Nate