I'm proposing the following trivial patch to bring more consistency to org-capture-mode's hooks. By setting org-capture-current-plist before invoking org-capture-mode in the capture buffer, users can access the same variable in org-capture-mode-hook as they would in org-capture-before-finalize-hook and org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook. org-capture-after-finalize-hook is the only outlier, but that makes sense as the capture buffer is no longer current when it runs. ~ Nicholas Vollmer