How do you use UIDs?

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Now, I don’t use them myself, but I imagine they are useful because:

  1. You don’t have to name each concept and thought. If you strictly follow the Zettelkasten principles, you have one idea per note. Not every idea can be summarised in a note’s file name (title), but with automatic IDs you don’t have to worry about it.

  2. You can have two notes with the same title. Let’s say you have a note called “Norm”, containing info about the concept of measure from analysis. Now you’d also want another “Norm” note with information about some protocol concerning your job. With UIDs, those files can coexist.

It might be nice if @nickmilo chimed in.

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