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Does anyone know what happened to Emacs Elements? As I was getting ready to publish this post, I notices that the below linked video was gone and that Google said it had been deleted by the author. On further investigation, I see that the entire playlist is gone.
I did find this post on the Emacs subreddit but it doesn’t have any information: just others wondering what happened to the site, and mourning its loss. If you know anything, please leave a comment.
My original post is below but, of course, none of the links lead anywhere interesting.
Original Post
Emacs Elements has a nice video up on Org mode capture templates. This video concentrates on the structure and meaning of the templates.
Org templates are one of the most useful ways of using Org to capture and record various types of data. I use them to capture tax, health, journal, TODO, email, and blogging data. They’re easy to adapt for capturing data in several formats and to annotate the captured information.
Building the templates is a bit fussy and you have to get them just right or they won’t work. That said, they have a reasonable format and aren’t too hard to learn. Even if you don’t want to build them yourself you can still use the Emacs configure subsystem.
The video is relatively short—7 minutes, 37 seconds—so there’s no point in recapitulating it here. Spend a few minutes with it to find out the sorts of things that are possible and use the excellent Org documentation to fill in any blanks.