Re: Alfred workflow for org-capture

["Damon Haley" <dkh@member.fsf.org>]

In addition to Alfred/Applescript,  the Quickkeys application allows once to
directly access emacs keybindings (without emacsclient) and then let emacs
call call apple script to retrieve useful context for org-capture.

My solution is completely stolen from John Wiegley,  but it works great.

After calling org-smart-capture with quickkeys,  quickkeys calls the
appropriate org-insert functions
from here:

https://github.com/jwiegley/dot-emacs/blob/master/dot-org.el#L534

Quickkeys just needs to know the frontmost application when capture was
called,  which is easy to configure, and then it types the relevant org-insert keybinding.

John, has also written a function called smart-capture that goes directly to
the capture template of one's choice:

https://github.com/jwiegley/dot-emacs/blob/master/lisp/org-smart-capture.el

Quickkeys is also worth its price for automating tons of actions with or
without Apple Script.

Damon

>>>>> Haider Rizvi <harizvi@gmail.com> writes:

> "Robert P. Goldman" <rpgoldman@sift.info> writes:
>> Does anyone have a workflow for the Alfred Mac app launcher that will
>> interact with org-capture?

> If Alfred can trigger an Applescript, I use the following with Quicksilver:

> Applescript: 

> property eclient : "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient
> -n -e " do shell script eclient & "'(make-orgcapture-frame)'"

> elisp in init.el or ...: 

> (defun make-orgcapture-frame ()  
>   "Create a new frame and run org-capture."  
>   (interactive)  
>   (make-frame '((name . "remember") (width . 80) (height . 16)
>                 (top . 400) (left . 300)
>                 (font . "-apple-Monaco-medium-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1")
>                 ))
>   (select-frame-by-name "remember")  
>   (org-capture))

> Regards, 
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