The point is that they don’t. See the Adobe specifications.

Christiaan

> On 13 Feb 2023, at 03:15, Mark Roberts <mroberts1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I set this idea aside for a while, but then I had an idea...
> 
> As it stands now, each Skim note includes a modification date. What if it 
> also included a UUID, or a creation date that never changes? 
> 
> If one of these were added to the note structure, then they could also be 
> referenced in a URL. In this fashion, a Skim URL could resolve to a specific 
> note.
> 
> The use case I have in mind is another app reading the Skim notes sidecar 
> file, and generating hyperlinks that could resolve to the same note.
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> M.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 6:41 PM Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 26 Jan 2023, at 05:17, Mark Roberts <mroberts1...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:mroberts1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm using the "Deep Links Using Skim URLs" feature, to open a PDF file in 
>> Skim.
>> 
>> I can use a "page=" fragment to open to a particular page, but I'm wondering 
>> if there's a way to open to both a page and to select one of my notes 
>> (highlighted text) on that page.
>> 
>> Possible?
>> 
>> TIA
> 
> No, that is not possible. It wouldn’t even be possible, there is no reliable 
> way to identify a note.
> 
> Christiaan

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