* Karl Voit <devn...@karl-voit.at> wrote: > * Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 12/18/16, Karl Voit <devn...@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
