Emacs Org-Mode and the Capture System Org-mode has a capture system. You can be in any file in Emacs and invoke the capture system. Press a few keys and add text to a org heading in any file that you have set up a capture for. It is easy to set it up. Firstly you assign a keyboard command to the capture system. In my case, :bind ("C-c c" . org-capture) Org-capture You get this. Journal Entry You press a key. Let’s say you want to add a journal entry. Press j and get this. Type what you want to say in the buffer and when done, press ⌃C ⌃C. This saves the additions to the journal and closes the buffer. Leaving you in the buffer you were in before you invoked the capture function. My setup for the journal capture looks like this: ("j" "journal" entry (file+datetree "~/Dropbox/org/diary2026.org") "* %<%R: >\n%? \n" :empty-lines-before 1) This is the code-snippet which does the heavy lifting. "* %<%R: >\n%? \n" The explanation: *: Creates a level-1 heading. %<%R: >: This is a time format…
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