Re: [O] IDs w/ human friendly component

2014-02-02 Thread John Kitchin
you can put some kind of prefix on like this: * intro to a section :PROPERTIES: :ID: intro-to-a:0f141497-f3ad-488a-b8c9-0a5c3ea53ba0 :END: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (defun get-my-id () "create an org-id with prefix based on headline" (let ((s)) (setq s (replace-regexp-in-st

Re: [O] IDs w/ human friendly component

2014-02-02 Thread Ken Mankoff
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 impor

Re: [O] IDs w/ human friendly component

2014-02-01 Thread Daniel Clemente
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 th

[O] IDs w/ human friendly component

2014-02-01 Thread Ken Mankoff
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