diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d06ecde..81ed039 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -416,7 +416,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "reqwest",
  "tokio",
  "url",
- "uuid",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -943,12 +942,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "uuid"
-version = "0.8.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bc5cf98d8186244414c848017f0e2676b3fcb46807f6668a97dfe67359a3c4b7"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "vcpkg"
 version = "0.2.11"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a17ce71..b5d115e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ edition = "2018"
 env_logger = "0.8"
 log = "0.4"
 tokio = { version = "1.2", features = ["macros", "rt"]}
-uuid = "0.8"
 reqwest = "0.11"
 minidom = "0.13"
 url = "2.2"
diff --git a/src/data/task.rs b/src/data/task.rs
index 02932dc..fa50166 100644
--- a/src/data/task.rs
+++ b/src/data/task.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-use uuid::Uuid;
-
-pub type TaskId = Uuid;
+pub type TaskId = String; // This is an HTML "etag"
 
 /// A to-do task
 #[derive(Clone, Debug)]
@@ -11,7 +9,7 @@ pub struct Task {
 }
 
 impl Task {
-    pub fn id(&self) -> Uuid        { self.id           }
+    pub fn id(&self) -> &TaskId     { &self.id          }
     pub fn name(&self) -> &str      { &self.name        }
     pub fn completed(&self) -> bool { self.completed    }