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From: Stig Brautaset <stig@brautaset.org>
Subject: Re: org-capture does copy selected marked text
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 21:17:24 +0000
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Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>
> I have used org-capture a long time ago and do not recall the details,
> but I thought I could select a text and then org-capture would copy that
> selected text to a file of my choice in a format I can customize. A bit
> like good old remember does/did.
>
> For example I have set
>
>         ("j" "Journal Entry"
>          entry (file+datetree "~/ALLES/journal.org")
>          "* %?"
>          :empty-lines 1)

Try adding "%i" to the capture template, for example like so:

         ("j" "Journal Entry"
          entry (file+datetree "~/ALLES/journal.org")
          "* %?\n\n  %i"
          :empty-lines 1)

Stig