Hi Bastien thanks for the help i am running org 8.2.5h with emacs 24.3.1 i tried it with 1 template and its still the same slowness also i tried it with emacs -q (pasting the capture template, evaluating it and running org-capture) and its still very slow i would be happy to try and test and other things needed best Z. On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Bastien wrote: > Hi Xebar, > > can you try with only one template? Then report your Org > version and your Emacs version? Also, let us know if you > have the problem with a bare emacs (emacs -q). > > -- > Bastien >