On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 12:14:20PM +0200, Christian Barthel wrote:

[...]

> > But only whithin one file, I gather.
> 
> No, I don’t think so.  I copied an ID from one item of todo.org
> into todo_2025.org and this is what the *Messages* buffer says:

Ugh. This sounds potentially expensive.

[...]

> > See, it is complicated [...]

> Yes, I think there is an option that deals with duplicating
> templates.  See ‘org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift’ where you can
> specify to delete the ID.  Or it does it automatically... I don’t
> remember [...]

You conveniently left out the case where you *do want* the
duplication :)

[...]

> Yes - manually copying an UUID results into a non-unique UUID .

...a non-unique UUID -- a philosophical monster 8-)

I just wanted to draw attention to the fact that UUIDs are not
magical per se -- sometimes they are useful, sometimes not.

I know it's popular here, but to me, for the sake of "marking"
positions in documents, they are more hassle than they are worth.

I prefer to locate by content/context.

Cheers
-- 
t

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