> I do appreciate all the replies so far. However as I plan on relying > on this to implement some quite critical functionality for a package I > am working on (a sort of Zettelkasten / TiddlyWiki in Orgmode if you > will) I would feel a lot more comfortable with some additional > reassurences that what I am planning is not some crazy or bad idea.
Is there any particular reason why you even need to display :ID: value to the user? If only id: links are concerned, link description can be made short and human-readable. Best, Ihor TRS-80 <trs...@isnotmyreal.name> writes: > On 2020-09-10 18:20, Samuel Wales wrote: >> this or something similar has definitely been discussed on this >> mailing list. so you are not alone. > > Yes, I also thought certainly this must have been discussed before. I > did try searching the list, but I think the relevant search terms are > too common, short ("ID", etc.) and/or too close to unrelated things > (i.e. CUSTOM_ID when I am looking for "custom ID", etc.) to produce > any good results. Or maybe my search-fu is just bad. > >> although i undersatnd the whole thing as readable id's. dunno if that >> is the prupose. > > Essentially, yes, more readable. But also shorter, and perhaps most > importantly, /meaningful/. > >> maybe something like a timestamp and then the usual id would give you >> pretty good uniqueness. > > The uniqueness I outlined in OP (down to minute) is plenty enough for > my use-case. The /last/ thing I want to do is to go the other way, and > make the ID even longer! > > I do appreciate all the replies so far. However as I plan on relying > on this to implement some quite critical functionality for a package I > am working on (a sort of Zettelkasten / TiddlyWiki in Orgmode if you > will) I would feel a lot more comfortable with some additional > reassurences that what I am planning is not some crazy or bad idea. > > Thanks, > TRS-80