org: Using capture
9.1.2 Using capture
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‘C-c c (org-capture)’
Call the command ‘org-capture’. Note that this keybinding is
global and not active by default: you need to install it. If you
have templates defined Capture templates, it will offer
these templates for selection or use a new Org outline node as the
default template. It will insert the template into the target file
and switch to an indirect buffer narrowed to this new node. You
may then insert the information you want.
‘C-c C-c (org-capture-finalize)’
Once you have finished entering information into the capture
buffer, ‘C-c C-c’ will return you to the window configuration
before the capture process, so that you can resume your work
without further distraction. When called with a prefix arg,
finalize and then jump to the captured item.
‘C-c C-w (org-capture-refile)’
Finalize the capture process by refiling (Refile and copy)
the note to a different place. Please realize that this is a
normal refiling command that will be executed—so the cursor
position at the moment you run this command is important. If you
have inserted a tree with a parent and children, first move the
cursor back to the parent. Any prefix argument given to this
command will be passed on to the ‘org-refile’ command.
‘C-c C-k (org-capture-kill)’
Abort the capture process and return to the previous state.
You can also call ‘org-capture’ in a special way from the agenda,
using the ‘k c’ key combination. With this access, any timestamps
inserted by the selected capture template will default to the cursor
date in the agenda, rather than to the current date.
To find the locations of the last stored capture, use ‘org-capture’
with prefix commands:
‘C-u C-c c’
Visit the target location of a capture template. You get to select
the template in the usual way.
‘C-u C-u C-c c’
Visit the last stored capture item in its buffer.
You can also jump to the bookmark ‘org-capture-last-stored’, which
will automatically be created unless you set ‘org-capture-bookmark’ to
‘nil’.
To insert the capture at point in an Org buffer, call ‘org-capture’
with a ‘C-0’ prefix argument.