{"id":5227,"date":"2016-05-04T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2016-05-07T10:37:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T14:37:22","slug":"multiple-org-capture-inputs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5227","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Org Capture Inputs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> David Zuber over at <a href=\"http:\/\/storax.github.io\/\">Storax<\/a> has a useful post on <a href=\"http:\/\/storax.github.io\/blog\/2016\/05\/02\/org-capture-tricks\/\">enabling multiple inputs in an Org capture template<\/a>. Templates are extraordinarily useful. I have several that I use several times a day. They do have a problem, though: you can input data into only one spot in the template. <\/p>\n<p> Zuber is using capture templates to implement a ticketing system for his workflow. He wants to be able to enter a project and incident number and have them replicated elsewhere in the template automatically. While that&#8217;s not supported directly, it&#8217;s fairly easy to implement using the custom lisp expressions that the templates do support. <\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ve used custom lisp expressions in the templates I use to <a href=\"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=3726\">manage my blog queue<\/a> but I hadn&#8217;t thought of using them to get keyboard input. It&#8217;s a nice idea that makes the templates potentially more useful. If you&#8217;re using capture templates, you should definitely give it a read. If you aren&#8217;t using capture templates you should consider ways that they might simplify your workflow. <\/p>\n<p> <b>UPDATE<\/b>: <span class=\"timestamp-wrapper\"><span class=\"timestamp\">[2016-05-07 Sat 10:37] <\/span><\/span> Be sure to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5227#comment-2659600828\">comment<\/a> by Michael Alan Dorman below. He  describes an easier, native way of doing the same thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Zuber over at Storax has a useful post on enabling multiple inputs in an Org capture template. Templates are extraordinarily useful. I have several that I use several times a day. They do have a problem, though: you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5227\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,4],"class_list":["post-5227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs","tag-org-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5234,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions\/5234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}