From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Subject: Questions about org-capture templates and usage Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:28:05 +1000 Message-ID: <83bp50hgy2.fsf@gmail.com> Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36504 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PP850-00005M-Oy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:28:15 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PP84z-0003PK-HD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:28:14 -0500 Received: from mail-yx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.213.169]:63859) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PP84z-0003Ow-CV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:28:13 -0500 Received: by yxl31 with SMTP id 31so20287811yxl.0 for ; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:28:11 -0800 (PST) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I apologize if I am breaking "netiquette* by posting multiple questions in a single posting. If so, please let me know, and I will pare the following down into "bite-sized" chunks. I have fallen in love with org-capture, from the start. I have had some problems, and questions. The following is a short list of some of my questions and issues . I'm sorry to do it this way, but perhaps it's a tradeoff: many messages, or one long one. Which is more annoying? 1. Eventually a tutorial will surely be available. I haven't found one. Useful tutorials for me would be 1. How to make general templates, and pitfalls. 2. Advanced usages of org-capture: using functions, etc. 3. Common errors and causes 2. Documentation is minimal, while the complexity of the system is great. 3. I have had to modify my usage to accomodate to changes in org-capture, relative to org-remember. Some differences devolve from explicit design features 1. It is no longer necessary to auto-save uncommitted items. As a consequence there seems (as I understand it) to no longer be a way to use a prefix key to allow one to visit the item in it's context AFTER committing it with C-c C-c. I have spend a good deal of time worrying over this, but haven't solved the problem. Probably 90% of the times I save (C-c C-c) the Captured item, I stumble over how to find it again to enhance or review the item. *Is there a way to do this, or can we request a way to do this?* 4. I would like to be able to capture to a non-orgmode file. My remember template saved some notes, a list of items from an agenda search, or any text was marked as a region, as a memo wrapped up as a latex memo, with a latex memo header and an \end{document. It is my understanding that this won't work anymore because capture will not save to a non-orgmode file. *Is this correct, and/or what, if anything can I do to make this work?* ` I have thought that it might be possible to make a custom agenda report for such searches, that could be edited before final export. I would want this to be printable as a memo. 5. Requests for Features: 1. An indication of the current target would be useful on either the modeline or the CAPTURE header line. 2. Likewise, an indicator or nestedness of unsaved capture items. (probably not worth the clutter). 3. Is there a way to go to the last captured item? Is there a ring that can be cycled through? *This would be useful* Thank you for this fantastic work. Alan Davis