The ability I am looking forward here IS to find a location - it's just that I need a little more detailed control. For example, file+headline(or file+subheadline, or whatever) would find a specific headline in a file, & inserts the entry under it, creating it if it doesn't exist (IE * Notes) file+datetree acts the same, but creates bits of a datetree to get to the specific date. What I want is (somewhat) of a combination of the two: 1) find/create the datetree to get today's date 2) under this subtree, find/create headline 3) insert the entry under this headline. Ideally I'd like to grab a value using capture to specify the headline, but from what I gather that's not going to happen. Nonetheless, I can live with specifying 1 template for each category headline I need: For a simple example: datetree+headline capture template for headline * Notes inserts entry into * 2013 ** April *** 2013-04-09 Tuesday **** PPT111 Dev Ticket for new functionality ***** Log <2013-04-09> Worked on spec for this ticket CLOCK: [2013-04-09 Tue 08:40] This simple extension would then give the ability to log in/out of the PPT111 ticket, with notes on what was worked on, and a simple CLOCKTAB line at the right level will bundle up all the time for a ticket in single entries. This functionality would also be useful for me as a student, with sub-headlines for classes where I could add notes, todos, etc. On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Bastien wrote: > Hi Subhan, > > Subhan Tindall writes: > > > questions: > > 1) are the values gathered by capture available to the function > > specified for file+function, & if so what are their names? > > No. > > > 2) what is the general template for a function for use with > > file+function, cleanup, return values, etc that would be expected? > > The function is expected to find a location where to put the new > entry, not to return any specific value, and if it returns a value, > the value is ignored. It can also act on the subtree at the location > it has found, but this is slightly abusing the feature I'd say. > > > 3) would it be better to extend datetree to datetree+headline for > > entries of this type? it seems like it a pretty usefully > > functionality to have (I can think of 2 or 3 instances i'd regularly > > use this just off the top of my head > > "datetree+headline" is improper, because a location in a datetree is > a headline... so maybe your best chance is to use (function ...) or > (file+function ...) and try to see if the function can interactively > prompt for the values you want and edit the location as you want. > But again, this goes beyond the purpose of function, which is to > find to location. > > -- > Bastien > -- Subhan Michael Tindall | Software Developer | smt@rentrakmail.com RENTRAK | www.rentrak.com | NASDAQ: RENT