An option to customize the note id

[gambhiro]

May I ask if we could customize how the note id is generated?

Org-roam generates them with org-id-get-create. I couldn't find out how to change this for new md-roam notes, so I have been creating an id manually in the scratch buffer and copying it back to the capture buffer.

In md-roam:

---
title: that's a new note
id: 2023-02-03-070000
aliases: []
---

In org-roam:

:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       bd62c1eb-7dfa-4ffa-9329-5454f17c702d
:END:
#+TITLE: that's a new note
#+FILETAGS:  

[nobiot]

If you are Org version 9.5, you can customize org-id-method to time stamp.

I do this: org-id-method' is set to 'ts (time stamp). And use org-roam-capture-templates like this:

          ("p" "personal Markdown" plain ""
           :target
           (file+head "personal/${id}.md"
                      "---\ntitle: ${title}\nid: ${id}\ncategory: %^{Category|#reference|#creation|#index|#meeting}\nmodified: <>\n---\n")
           :unnarrowed t)

ID is just a plain text, so if you are not on version 9.5, you can use format-time-string. I think in this case you might like to also add something in capture-finalize hook to call org-id-add-location for the ID and markdown file.

[nobiot]

If this is unclear let me know

[gambhiro]

Ah brilliant. I didn't realize I can put id: ${id} in the capture template, I was stuck on thinking in terms of the % syntax.