Questions tagged [org-capture]
is for capturing notes in Org mode with minimal interruption.
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Eliminate org capture message
How can I disable the persistent message on an org capture buffer that says?
Capture buffer. Finish `C-c', Refile `C-w', abort `C-k'.
A similar message is displayed when entering a source block. ...
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org-mode capture template prompt directly to agenda without opening file
I defined a template like so
("g" "Godo"
entry
(file+headline "~/mega/org/gcal.org" "Tasks")
"* TODO %^{description}%?\n %T %i\n %a")))
and when pressing C-c c g I am ...
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Elisp function to get path to file link target
With the cursor on a file link, I'd like to set up an org-capture template which inserts the template into the target of the link.
I guess I add something like
(setq org-capture-templates
'(("m" ...
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Org Capture - prepend after org header/config block?
One of my org capture templates (in my init.el) looks like the following:
("n" "Note" plain
(file "/path/to/file.org")
"* %^{Title} %U \n%? \n"
:prepend t)
I'd like ...
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Using org-capture to record an appointment with a time range
I would like to use org-capture to quickly store appointments in a journal file, and add a timestamp so that the appointment appears in my agenda. I'm using the following template:
;; excerpted from ...
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How to set schedule and deadline for entires being inserted via org-capture template file?
I'm trying to leverage the power of org capture templates. There are a few tasks I know I will be scheduling on particular dates of the month.
Setting their schedule and deadline in the capture ...
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org-protocol not responding
Description
I use org-capture extension which had been working great for about 6 months.
I have trouble making org-protocol work from Firefox since 8/1/19. When hitting the extension button in FF, ...
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Org capture datetree duplicanting entries (when using other locales)
I started using Emacs on Linux, now I moved to Mac OS and my problems began.
When I use org-capture to capture stuff to a datetree, it duplicates the day entry instead of just adding a new node under ...
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Sharing .org file between two users
My secretory creates a daily agenda for me by capturing task to shared org file mytodo.org. When I open the agenda or mark the task done, her ability to capture new task gets limited as the mytodo.org ...
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Changing keybinding for org-capture [closed]
I expect my reception to compile my daily agenda using .org capture. But they find using C-c C; C-c C-s; C-c C-c to capture, schedule and completion respectively difficult.
Can a single function keys ...
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How can I capture selected text in a pdf-view buffer with org-capture?
I would like to capture the selected text (selected with the mouse) in a PDF document (opened in PDFView Mode) with an org capture template.
When I evaluate the expression (car (pdf-view-active-...
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Org-capture template with deadline of one month from today
As it seems, org-mode capture templates mechanism maybe have changed? I'm using:
Org mode version 9.2.4 (9.2.4-10-g3b006f-elpaplus)
What I'm trying to do is to have a capture template that will ...
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Mandatory capturing data before every org file is modified
I have to create a list of documents I modified or created in a day. I use org-capture to create it. I use following org capture template to capture the data when I start working on the file
("c"...
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Trouble with org-capture for links
I'm having some trouble getting links to work. All of my other capture templates are working, but when I press "l"for link, it doesn't prompt me for the link. It instead immediately says Capture abort:...
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set fill-column in org-capture notes
I'm trying to customize the fill-column value for org-add-note when adding notes to an Org TODO (e.g., C-c C-z).
I have tried to add the following to the org-add-note function (this seems reasonable ...
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How do I show org links pointing to an entry?
I have org-capture templates setup (but the default Todo template works the same way) to create a link in the resultant file to the text that was selected when org-capture was invoked. This allows me ...
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Org Version 9.2.4 Insert Template at Point Doesn't Respect :empty-lines Property
I recently upgraded to Org-mode version 9.2.4 from 9.1.9 and when I insert a capture template at point in an org-file using C-0 C-c c or C-0 M-x org-capture, it appears that properties :empty-lines, :...
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Create a “rabbit hole” task stack that can be pushed/popped?
I frequently fall into a sort of working anti-pattern involving “rabbit holes.”¹
Here’s the form it takes (with a concrete e.g. in parentheses):
Start working on something (the “real task”)
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org-capture fails: base buffer has been killed
I am trying to set up GTD for org-mode by Nicolas Petton. I have a very simple org-capture-template:
(setq org-capture-templates '(("t" "Todo [inbox]" entry
(file+...
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How to use a org-capture template expansion several times in a captured note
I am trying to create a org-capture template that re-uses some text given with the ‘%^{PROMPT}’ expansion along several points of the created note.
I have looked in this link and in stack overflow ...
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More detailed org-capture into org-table template?
(Disclaimer: I know this may seem like a very specific question. But: I haven't found the answers to similar questions to be close enough to what I need. I hope to get an answer that is easily ...
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How can I join these two org-templates, so that the first block can be an option between the other entries?
(use-package org
:ensure org-plus-contrib)
(use-package org-contacts
:ensure nil
:after org)
(use-package org-capture
:ensure nil
:after org
:preface
(defvar my/org-...
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org-mode datetree forward one day in the future
At work we do standups about what we did yesterday, I'm using datetree for my org-capture but the date recorded is by default today's date, I would like to change this so the date is of tomorrow ...
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How can I insert org-capture-templates into a document I'm editing
I have a capture template for TODO items defined as follows
("t" "todo" entry (file "~/org/refile.org")
"* TODO %?\n%U\n%a\n" :clock-in t :clock-resume t)
While editing a document, I ...
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How to use org-capture in a function without killing the buffer, customize capture refile
I am trying to create a function, which captures a note and then copies the same note to another file (In my case for a google calendar synchronization). The problem ist that after giving the capture ...
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how org-capture can insert value in an existing table line
I am diabetic and I have to take my blood glucose three times a day (morning, noon, evening)
I can do in three separate tables, and I create a table to group the daily records.
How could I capture all ...
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Org-mode: add a deadline with minutes
In the quick capture window, I can add a deadline for 12pm today by typing C-c C-d 12pm:
** TODO test
DEADLINE: <2019-03-26 Tue 12:00>
If I add minutes with 12.30, it moves the date to 2030:
*...
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Monthly date tree
I'd like to use datetree with month (alternatively week) granularity. Currently the datetree looks like that:
* 2019
** 2019-03 March
*** 2019-03-17 Sunday
**** TODO Weekly review
I'd like to drop ...
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Org-capture menu from within helm
I have started using org-capture extensively, and now have capture lists for just about everything: books to read, movies to rent, articles to write, research topics, business ideas – you name it.
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How to quickly add data or navgate to a heading in org-mode?
I have a calendar.org file with roughly this structure:
* 2019
** January
*** 1
*** 2
*** 3
**** Event 1
Description of event 1
**** Event 2
Description of event 2
*** 4
*** 5
*** 6
...
What I do
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org-capture template error: Template is not a valid Org entry or tree
I am running org version: 9.1.9 and have issues setting up a template for org-capture. I have read over the documentation but cannot figure out why my template throws this error when I call it: org-...
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Org-capture - placing entry in user-specified subheading
I am trying to create a capture-template which will prompt the user to define a subheading so that it can place the capture as a level 3 heading under the appropriate level 2 heading within an org ...
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Capture org notes to a new file
I would like to improve my notes capture flow to do the following:
Use C-c c then n to create a note.
Get a minibuffer that searches for an existing file to add the note to (ie. probably with helm), ...
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where is default org mode capture template for tasks located
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 (...
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How to add font styles to org-capture templates?
I want to change the color and font style in my template.
I use custom-set-variable and cannot set, for example, italic style
(custom-set-variables
'(org-capture-templates
(backquote
(("d"
...
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after org-capture, how to go to the content that I saved?
I just wondering if there is a way to go to the content which saved by doing org-capture
I couldn't find any customizable variable so far :-/
Thanks in advance!
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How to install org-mac-link on MacOS?
I am trying to install org-mac-link on my Mac. I have downloaded the file org-mac-link.el to .emacs.d and also customized the org group by typing M-x customize-group RET org RET, then expand the ...
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Capture under heading
If we have org file with datetree and repeating actions, how can I capture under last heading of some level.
Let's say we have this:
* 2018
** 2018-W47
*** 2018-11-21 Wednesday
**** Gym Session
**...
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org-capture frame with no splits
I want to be able to launch a new emacsclient and issue org-capture in it. I have created this simple function:
(defun make-orgcapture-frame ()
"Create a new frame and run org-capture."
(...
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Is org-capture broken?
I use emacs-26.1 org-version 9.1.14.
My templates (list) is showing up but when I choose a template I get:
org-capture: Capture abort: (void-function org-eldoc-load)
I can't find org-eldoc.el in my ...
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How do I end an org capture template with whitespace?
I want to make an org capture template that ends in whitespace. Specifically, I want to make TODOs that are scheduled. From emacs -Q, I'm starting with this template:
(cl-pushnew '("T" "TODO ...
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Org capture into org table
Normally org-capture lets one insert a templated subtree somewhere into an existing Org file or tree node.
Is it possible to use org-capture to instead add a row to an existing Org-mode table?
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In org mode, how can I make a post-capture hook run only for certain capture templates?
I have several capture templates. With one of them, I want an Elisp function to transform the contents before saving it. I know of org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook, but this will run for every ...
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Org capture templates now take me to org file, not to previous buffer
All of a sudden (after changing computer but keeping same settings) my org capture templates take me to the org file where whatever is being captured will be stored, without the need for C-c C-c to ...
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Apply template to files created from an org-mode link
If you click on a file: link to a document that does not exist, org-mode will create this file for you.
How can I get this behavior to work with a org-capture template, so that files created in this ...
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Generate a date tree from timestamps in org-mode
Since I was interested in doing my early capture-templates, I was tempted to go with this template below:
("j" "Reference type: Journal" entry (file+headline "~/Dropbox/orgfiles/gtd/ref.org" "...
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org-capture Template expansion leading whitespace: bug, feature, workaround
Emacs 26.1
org-mode: 9.1.9
I have an issue with the way org-capture expands a template when it comes to line beginnings:
This template
(setq org-capture-templates
'(("o" "Todo" entry (file+...
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Capturing data in org-file to org-table
I have a simple template in emacs org-mode:
\begin{flushright}
Name:
Phone no:
Billed amount:
Date
\end {flushright}
Details:
I export the document to PDF and print it. I create multiple ...
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Org capture template not working (when trying to set local notes file)
My goal is to get org-capture to store captured notes in a local "notes.org" file located in the same directory as the current working buffer.
I set the template like so:
(setq org-capture-templates
...
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Send org-capture tasks to different files, depending on which file org-capture is called from
I am beginning to use org-mode as an electronic lab notebook, which is working very well. I work on a number of different projects, each of which has its own directory. When I use org-capture, I want ...
