where is default org mode capture template for tasks located

Question

I was configuring some capture templates for org mode but when adding any new template to init file, the default TASK template disappeared.

 (setq org-capture-templates
      '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline "~/org/refile.org" "Tasks")
             "* TODO %t %?\n ")
        ("n" "Note" entry (file+headlin "~/org/notes.org")
             "* %?\nEntered on %U\n  %i\n  %a")))

The issue is that when adding any other template, option default for tasks disappeared, but if I add a default task template, some of the expansions for template I like a lot, such as link to file or date of addition I've managed to emulate but no success so far.

where is default template code located?

Answer 1

The default capture templates are only available if you haven't set a value fororg-capture-templates, which means @Dan's suggestion of using add-to-list won't work in this case. If you want to continue using the default tasks template in addition to your own templates, you need to add it explicitly. It takes a bit of digging to find it, hidden in the code of the function org-capture-select-template:

 '(("t" "Task" entry (file+headline "" "Tasks")
    "* TODO %?\n  %u\n  %a"))

In your case, you'll need something like the following:

(setq org-capture-templates
     '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline "~/org/refile.org" "Tasks")
            "* TODO %t %?\n ")
       ("n" "Note" entry (file+headlin "~/org/notes.org")
            "* %?\nEntered on %U\n  %i\n  %a")
       ("T" "Task" entry (file+headline "" "Tasks")
            "* TODO %?\n  %u\n  %a")))

Note that I used a capital T to distinguish it from your Todo entry.