I'm using org to store a list of links, I capture the links with org-capture and a custom template, but I want to write the new entries at top of the file. how I can do this?
From the Org-Mode Manual, you can add the following template element to your custom captures:
:prepend t
Normally new captured information will be appended at the target location (last child, last table line, last list item...). Setting this property will change that.
See the related post Using properties in org-mode capture templates, where for example you can achieve the desired effect by using:
("w" "Default template" entry (file+headline (concat (file-name-as-directory org-directory) "journal.org") "Notes")
"* TODO [#C] %^{Title} %?" :prepend t)
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by the way,
tis missing from the manual AFAICT, otherwise:prependalone won't work. This gave me headache couple of days ago. – doctorate Apr 26 '19 at 11:01 -
@doctorate, I know it is old, but I have just stumbled across this wondering the same thing. All I can guess is that
tis the value of aUnittype. in a functional language, all functions have to have an argument. If your function doesn't need an argument you just define it to receive aUnit. I could be wrong, but that is what it seems to me. – JonathanPeel Aug 12 at 7:34
org-reverse-note-order. – glucas Jan 24 '17 at 1:24:prepend tis correct that it ensures new entries are added above older ones, that applies only within a date header. The date headers themselves are still added latest after previous. Andorg-reverse-note-orderdoesn't change that either. Because the:prepend tanswer has been marked as accepted, I've asked a similar question to this but specifying more completely what is required. It's here. – tkp Feb 10 '17 at 1:53