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I use the following capture code for making notes.

(setq org-capture-templates '((
     "n"                                         ; key
     "Add a note to abc.org file "               ; description 
     entry                                       ; type
     (file+headline "p.abc.org" "logg")          ; target
     "* %^{Logg}  :NOTE: %(org-set-tags)  \n%?"  ; template
     :prepend t                                  ; properties
     :empty-lines 1                              ; propertiesc
     )))

The template line consists of two sources of tags to the note. (1) I want all notes to be tagged with ":NOTE:", therefor this tag is written directly into the target line. (2) in addition I want to chose tags from my tags list by means of the function org-set-tags.

If I chose the tag :FAMILY: from my tagg list, the note heading end up looking like this:

* Note about something :NOTE: :FAMILY:

In this case only :FAMILY: is behaving as a tag (shown in bold in the headline). How can I change the target line so that the heading line will look like this: ?

* Note about something :NOTE:FAMILY:

where the two tags are collected into the single group :NOTE:FAMILY: and both function as tags?

It does not help to remove the space between :NOTE: and %(org-set-tags) in the target file, because the org-set-tags function insert spaces befor entering the tags you chose from you tags list.

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org-set-tags won't recognize :NOTE: as a tag, because the heading doesn't exist yet. the following should do it:

(setq org-capture-templates
      `(("n"
         "Add a note to abc.org file "
         entry
         (file+headline "p.abc.org" "logg")
         ,(concat "* %^{Logg} "
                  "%(flet ((org-get-tags-string () \":NOTE:\")) (org-set-tags))"
                  " :NOTE:\n%?")
         :prepend t
         :empty-lines 1
         )))
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  • Thanks, very interesting, I will check it out as soon as possible :) – myotis Aug 18 '15 at 12:14
  • Your solution works great, Thanks a lot ! – myotis Aug 18 '15 at 14:16
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Instead of using %(org-set-tags) in the template, use %^g

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  • Hi, unfortunately your solution has exactly the same result as when using %(org-set-tags). The "NOTE" tag is separated from the tags inserted by the %^g` mechanism. If it works on your emacs, but not on my, what could cause such differences? – myotis Aug 18 '15 at 9:50
  • What version of org are you using? – erikstokes Aug 18 '15 at 11:00
  • I have version 8.2.10 – myotis Aug 18 '15 at 11:05
  • It seems to work on 8.3.1 – erikstokes Aug 18 '15 at 11:08
  • is there a simple way of upgrading? – myotis Aug 18 '15 at 11:42

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