Org capture templates - file paths

Org capture templates - file paths

[Gustav Wikström]

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Hello!

I'm having some trouble with org-capture. Could someone explain to me why
the following is not working? (And what to do to get it to work..)

Code:

(defvar my-gtd-inbox-file (concat my-gtd-root "inbox.org"))
;;; Capture templates
(setq org-capture-templates
      '(("n" "Note" entry (file my-gtd-inbox-file)
"* %?\n %i\n %a")
 ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree my-gtd-journal-file)
     "* %?\nEntered on %U\n %i\n %a")))

End code.

what I've figured so far is that variables cannot be used in templates... Is
there some workaround for this, or could it possibly be implemented? I need
it since i'm on multiple systems where paths to the same files might differ
depending on the system in use...

Regards Gustav Wikström

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Re: Org capture templates - file paths

[Puneeth]

2010/8/19 Gustav Wikström <gustav.erik@gmail.com>:
> Hello!
> I'm having some trouble with org-capture. Could someone explain to me why
> the following is not working? (And what to do to get it to work..)
> Code:
> (defvar my-gtd-inbox-file (concat my-gtd-root "inbox.org"))
> ;;; Capture templates
> (setq org-capture-templates
>       '(("n" "Note" entry (file my-gtd-inbox-file)
> "* %?\n %i\n %a")
> ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree my-gtd-journal-file)
>     "* %?\nEntered on %U\n %i\n %a")))
> End code.
> what I've figured so far is that variables cannot be used in templates... Is
> there some workaround for this, or could it possibly be implemented? I need
> it since i'm on multiple systems where paths to the same files might differ
> depending on the system in use...

From what I understand from the docs (I didn't look at the code),
variables cannot be used.

One way to work around this problem is to use the org-directory variable.

  (setq org-directory "~/life-in-plain-text/")

Then, you need not specify the path in the capture templates. You can
just specify the file name (inbox.org)

HTH,
Puneeth

Re: Org capture templates - file paths

[Magnus Henoch]

Gustav Wikström <gustav.erik@gmail.com> writes:

> (setq org-capture-templates
>       '(("n" "Note" entry (file my-gtd-inbox-file)
> "* %?\n %i\n %a")
>  ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree my-gtd-journal-file)
>      "* %?\nEntered on %U\n %i\n %a")))

Backquotes and commas are your friends:

(setq org-capture-templates
      `(("n" "Note" entry (file ,my-gtd-inbox-file)
"* %?\n %i\n %a")
 ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree ,my-gtd-journal-file)
     "* %?\nEntered on %U\n %i\n %a")))

Read more at
http://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Backquote.html .

Magnus

Re: Re: Org capture templates - file paths

[Puneeth]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Magnus Henoch <magnus.henoch@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gustav Wikström <gustav.erik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> (setq org-capture-templates
>>       '(("n" "Note" entry (file my-gtd-inbox-file)
>> "* %?\n %i\n %a")
>>  ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree my-gtd-journal-file)
>>      "* %?\nEntered on %U\n %i\n %a")))
>
> Backquotes and commas are your friends:

Thanks! I didn't know this.

>
> (setq org-capture-templates
>      `(("n" "Note" entry (file ,my-gtd-inbox-file)
> "* %?\n %i\n %a")
>  ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree ,my-gtd-journal-file)
>     "* %?\nEntered on %U\n %i\n %a")))
>
> Read more at
> http://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Backquote.html .
>
> Magnus
>
>
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