* Can org-capture-templates be made more flexible?
@ 2013-10-13 9:59 Leo Liu
2013-10-13 10:17 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-11-06 8:15 ` Bastien
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From: Leo Liu @ 2013-10-13 9:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hi there,
I use https://github.com/leoliu/applescripts/blob/master/Notes.el to
pull notes from Notes.app on OS X into an org buffer.
Naturally I also want to hook something into org-capture to create new
notes. However, it seems org-capture-templates requires a file-location
of some sort, which is unhelpful in this case. Any way to make
org-capture-templates more flexible?
Thanks,
Leo
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* Re: Can org-capture-templates be made more flexible?
2013-10-13 9:59 Can org-capture-templates be made more flexible? Leo Liu
@ 2013-10-13 10:17 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-10-14 1:37 ` Leo Liu
2013-11-06 8:15 ` Bastien
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From: Suvayu Ali @ 2013-10-13 10:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 05:59:38PM +0800, Leo Liu wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I use https://github.com/leoliu/applescripts/blob/master/Notes.el to
> pull notes from Notes.app on OS X into an org buffer.
>
> Naturally I also want to hook something into org-capture to create new
> notes. However, it seems org-capture-templates requires a file-location
> of some sort, which is unhelpful in this case. Any way to make
> org-capture-templates more flexible?
How about using a dummy file?
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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* Re: Can org-capture-templates be made more flexible?
2013-10-13 10:17 ` Suvayu Ali
@ 2013-10-14 1:37 ` Leo Liu
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From: Leo Liu @ 2013-10-14 1:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Suvayu Ali; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On 2013-10-13 18:17 +0800, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> How about using a dummy file?
It's a workaround which I want to avoid if possible. Thus me asking
here.
Leo
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* Re: Can org-capture-templates be made more flexible?
2013-10-13 9:59 Can org-capture-templates be made more flexible? Leo Liu
2013-10-13 10:17 ` Suvayu Ali
@ 2013-11-06 8:15 ` Bastien
2013-11-06 15:33 ` Leo Liu
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From: Bastien @ 2013-11-06 8:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leo Liu; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hi Leo,
Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> I use https://github.com/leoliu/applescripts/blob/master/Notes.el to
> pull notes from Notes.app on OS X into an org buffer.
>
> Naturally I also want to hook something into org-capture to create new
> notes. However, it seems org-capture-templates requires a file-location
> of some sort, which is unhelpful in this case. Any way to make
> org-capture-templates more flexible?
I'm not sure I understand your use-case clearly: you need to invoke
org-capture with no target file?
Thanks for further explanations,
--
Bastien
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* Re: Can org-capture-templates be made more flexible?
2013-11-06 8:15 ` Bastien
@ 2013-11-06 15:33 ` Leo Liu
2013-11-06 16:25 ` Bastien
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From: Leo Liu @ 2013-11-06 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bastien; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On 2013-11-06 16:15 +0800, Bastien wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand your use-case clearly: you need to invoke
> org-capture with no target file?
>
> Thanks for further explanations
Exactly. I need the ability to send the org buffer created by capture to
the Notes.app directly. The Notes.app handles the storage and
synchronisation between multiple devices.
Leo
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* Re: Can org-capture-templates be made more flexible?
2013-11-06 15:33 ` Leo Liu
@ 2013-11-06 16:25 ` Bastien
2013-11-07 3:58 ` Leo Liu
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From: Bastien @ 2013-11-06 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leo Liu; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hi Leo,
Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2013-11-06 16:15 +0800, Bastien wrote:
>> I'm not sure I understand your use-case clearly: you need to invoke
>> org-capture with no target file?
>>
>> Thanks for further explanations
>
> Exactly. I need the ability to send the org buffer created by capture to
> the Notes.app directly. The Notes.app handles the storage and
> synchronisation between multiple devices.
In that case, using a target like (function ...) could do -- did you
try this?
See (info "(org)Template elements")
HTH,
--
Bastien
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* Re: Can org-capture-templates be made more flexible?
2013-11-06 16:25 ` Bastien
@ 2013-11-07 3:58 ` Leo Liu
2013-11-07 8:52 ` Bastien
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From: Leo Liu @ 2013-11-07 3:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bastien; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On 2013-11-07 00:25 +0800, Bastien wrote:
> In that case, using a target like (function ...) could do -- did you
> try this?
thanks for the pointer. I glanced at this option while reading the
org-capture-templates' doc.
From org-capture-set-target-location:
((eq (car target) 'function)
(funcall (nth 1 target))
(org-capture-put :exact-position (point))
(setq target-entry-p (and (derived-mode-p 'org-mode) (org-at-heading-p))))
and org-capture-finalize calls save-buffer I think this option requires
a file still.
Thanks,
Leo
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* Re: Can org-capture-templates be made more flexible?
2013-11-07 3:58 ` Leo Liu
@ 2013-11-07 8:52 ` Bastien
0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Bastien @ 2013-11-07 8:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leo Liu; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> and org-capture-finalize calls save-buffer I think this option requires
> a file still.
Mhhh, yes, it does.
Maybe one can hack something to "send" a subtree to an external
program. That way you can first capture it, then send it.
--
Bastien
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