If you’ve been following Irreal for a while, you know that I periodically try to get Org Protocol integrated into my workflow and end up writing a post on how I failed yet again. The last such post was just a month ago. Now Mike Zamansky has shamed me with the latest video in his Using Emacs Series. The latest video describes how he got Org Protocol to capture links to Web pages and emails.
Org Protocol helps with the link between your browser or email client and Org Mode. Most of the actual work flow is implemented with Org capture templates in the usual way. Zamansky found a browser extension, org-capture-extension, that makes setting up the browser/org protocol link easy. It provides a button that will send the necessary information to Org Protocol so that the Org capture mechanism can deal with it.
Setting up Org Protocol can be very fussy so it’s nice to have Zamansky’s step-by-step video as a guide. The Org-Capture extension is not available for Safari so I can’t use his solution directly. Fortunately, I handle the browser/Org interface with the bit of Apple Script that I wrote about back in 2014.
If you’re running under Linux and want to capture links from your browser or, say, Gmail, be sure to take a look at this video to see how to set things up. If you’re running under Windows, Sacha has some wisdom on setting things up (it’s from 2015 but can probably still be made to work).
The video is 11 minutes 40 seconds long so it should be easy to find time for it.