Re: org-capture target files

[Bastien <bzg@altern.org>]

Hi Kalev,

Kalev Takkis <kalev.takkis@gmail.com> writes:

> Is it possible to take a note in org-capture and to specify one or
> several files to put the message into only after the note is written?

You can refile a note from the capture buffer with C-c C-w.

I added a command to /copy/ the note instead of refiling it: C-c M-w.
Finding the copying location works the same way than for refile.  So
now you can copy the item from the capture buffer to several files.

> The workflow I have in mind is first pressing C-c c to take a note;
> selecting the type of note I'd like to take; typing the message,
> pasting a link etc., finishing the note, with C-c C-c and then ending
> up in a list of available *.org files (which could already be on
> display in a window next to capture window) from which I can select
> the file(s) where to send the note to. 

The available process is a bit different: capture, edit, refile or copy,
then finalize the capture process.

> After some ferocious googling
> for  the past two months it seems that this kind of system does not
> exist (right?). 

Two months of googling!  Phew.  :)

> But would it be possible to write something like that? After
> consulting with the org-capture.el file I have some doubts, all
> capture templates expect the destination file to be known beforehand,

Yes -- hence the different process describe above.

> and the filename is resolved early in the  capture process. There is
> a template where a function is supposed to find the target and which
> is described as the most flexible way, but since the capture already
> happens in the target file in an indirect buffer, I don't think it's
> flexibility is enough.
>
> What do you think, is there a way to do this?

Please try the new feature if you can (it is in the git master branch)
and let me know if it helps.

Best,

-- 
 Bastien