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From: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Multiple capture templates in file
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 22:38:03 +0200
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Hi!

"tenspd137 ." <dcday137@gmail.com> writes:

> I am trying to figure out how to store multiple capture templates in a
> file, have several files of related templates, and then load all the
> files stored in a directory.  For example, lets say I have two
> projects at work WorkProject1 and WorkProject2.  Then I have two files
> in a directory org-templates called WorkProj1Templates.el and
> WorkTemplates2.el.  How can I append the templates in these files to
> or capture templates?  In my main .emacs, I have:
>
> (setq org-capture-templates
>       '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory
> "/default.org") "Tasks")
>          "* TODO %?")
>         ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory
> "/journal.org"))
>          "* %?\nEntered on %U\n")))
>
> I would like to then load the template files in org-templates.  That
> way, when a project ends, I can just yank the templates.  I have
> experimentally tried using add-to-list with org-capture-templates
> without success.  Either that can't be done or my syntax was wrong?

How could anyone tell if you don't show your attempt?

> Does anyone have any ideas?

What about this?

WorkProj1Templates.el:

#v+
(push '("1" "Todo" entry
        (file+headline
         (concat org-directory "/WorkProj1.org")
         "Tasks")
        "* TODO %?")
      org-capture-templates)
#v-

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Marco Wahl
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