Capture deadline timestamp based on date in agenda view?

Question

I want to capture things with a deadline timestamp relative to the date that is open in my agenda view. How can I do that?

The %T template inserts today's date. I want a template that queries my agenda view for the date and uses that instead.

Answer 1

The current date in an agenda view is kept in the buffer-local org-starting-day. Use a sexp like %(format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d" (org-time-from-absolute org-starting-day)) in your capture template to insert a date string.

Answer 2

With the cursor on the desired date in the agenda view, press k (for kapture). This will cause anything referring to the current day (for example %T in a capture template) to refer to the date in the agenda instead.