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From: Jay Dresser <org-mode@jaydresser.us>
Subject: Re: "Capture"-like browser plugin?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 19:48:51 +0000 (UTC)
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Peter Davis <pfd <at> pfdstudio.com> writes:
> Frequently when I'm doing a Web search and find pages I like, I want to 
save a link to the page, along with the
> title and perhaps a
> few notes. Something like org-mode's capture would be great, but I'd like 
to initiate it from a browser. I
> imaging hitting a plugin
> button on the the browser's toolbar to open emacs via emacsclient, and 
essentially do a capture with the
> link and whatever text I
> care to enter.
> 
> Has anyone seen or heard of or written something like this?
> 
> Thanks!
> -pd

Not sure that you need a plug-in or extension, I just use this bookmarklet:

javascript:location.href='org-
protocol://capture://x/'+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'/'+encodeURIComp
onent(document.title)+'/'+encodeURIComponent(prompt('Tags?'))

It prompts for the tags, which I separate with ":" (to be org-like).
This works fine in Chromium and I would think Firefox too.

Then it calls this capture template:

                ("x" "Browser Capture to Incoming"
                 entry
                 (file+headline "~/Org/bookmarks.org" "Incoming")
                 "* %c :%i:"
                 :immediate-finish t)

This makes bookmarks of the form:
 * [[url][title]] :tags:

but of course you can change that with the template.