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 9.1.3 Capture templates
 -----------------------
 
 You can use templates for different types of capture items, and for
 different target locations.  The easiest way to create such templates is
 through the customize interface.
 
 ‘C-c c C’
      Customize the variable ‘org-capture-templates’.
 
    Before we give the formal description of template definitions, let’s
 look at an example.  Say you would like to use one template to create
 general TODO entries, and you want to put these entries under the
 heading ‘Tasks’ in your file ‘~/org/gtd.org’.  Also, a date tree in the
 file ‘journal.org’ should capture journal entries.  A possible
 configuration would look like:
 
      (setq org-capture-templates
       '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline "~/org/gtd.org" "Tasks")
              "* TODO %?\n  %i\n  %a")
         ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree "~/org/journal.org")
              "* %?\nEntered on %U\n  %i\n  %a")))
 
 If you then press ‘C-c c t’, Org will prepare the template for you like
 this:
      * TODO
        [[file:LINK TO WHERE YOU INITIATED CAPTURE]]
 
 During expansion of the template, ‘%a’ has been replaced by a link to
 the location from where you called the capture command.  This can be
 extremely useful for deriving tasks from emails, for example.  You fill
 in the task definition, press ‘C-c C-c’ and Org returns you to the same
 place where you started the capture process.
 
    To define special keys to capture to a particular template without
 going through the interactive template selection, you can create your
 key binding like this:
 
      (define-key global-map "\C-cx"
         (lambda () (interactive) (org-capture nil "x")))
 

Menu

 
· Template elements           What is needed for a complete template entry
· Template expansion          Filling in information about time and context
· Templates in contexts       Only show a template in a specific context
 

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