Zettelkasten prefixer UID option: base 36 epoch time

[msteffens]

While with a different app, I’ve been following a similar approach (base32-encoded timestamps with millisecond precision due to the need for automated generation on import),. However, I don’t include the ID in the title, but just in the note’s metadata (and as a suffix in the filename):

UUID for note links in URL scheme

IMO, the note metadata are a good place for the note‘s ID, e.g. like this: --- id: NOTEID --- Ideally, this ID would be provided by the app itself. But even w/o this I think it‘s good if each note has one, and other tools/plugins can build upon this. On a sidetrack (about IDs): For my own use case, I wanted to base my note IDs on timestamp-based IDs (and not UUIDs). This is since timestamp-based IDs have the huge advantage that they can be generated manually, w/o the need for a machine. Howev…

Yours would be even shorter and still sort in chronological order which may be useful to some (I prefer clean titles and sort by a dedicated “creation date” column instead).