Re: [emacs-humanities] Paper Zettelkasten safety [was: Why Emacs-humanities?]

[Christian Tietze]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> Thining about unique ID is not there. There is unique ID automatically
> assigned by the database, there is automatically assigned "date
> created", at any modification there is "date modified", at any
> creation or modification there is "user that created it" and "user
> that modified it" as in a collaborative system multiple users can work
> on the same object.

Sascha and I at zettelkasten.de may sound like we insist a bit too much
on the unique ID. If you model your knowledge database in a relational
SQL database, that's a perfectly fine implementation as you just
described: the fact that you can work with it is the ultimate test. SQL row ID 
references are a natural match.

But with databases it is like it is with backups: you should be testing
the worst case some day. It might be advisable to look into ways to
export the SQL database into another format and retain the
cross-connections. It's all baked into the text of a paper note or a
plain text note, so this is unique to digital database systems. (Betting
on SQL to not go away isn't a very risky bet, though :))

Cheers,
Christian

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