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5 years ago Good evening,
First of all, in order to have a more accurate answer to your request and to make it easier for other users to read your problem, I recommend that in the future you place your code in appropriate tags and try to isolate the issue (no need to include all the templates) ☺️
That being said, if I have understood your problem correctly, you simply want to be able to choose from your templates when capturing a task (correct me if I'm wrong).
The first point I noticed is that you do not inform org-contacts about the ".org" contact file including your contacts.
Here's how to solve this:
(use-package org-contacts
:ensure nil
:after org
:custom (org-contacts-files '("~/.personal/agenda/contacts.org")))where ~/.personal/agenda/contacts.org is the path to your contacts.org file, change it by yours.
NOTE: I can also see that you define :PHONE: and :EMAIL: twice, once is enough 🙂
Then, you used defvar to define your my/org-contacts-template variable. This is a good way to do this in order to better structure your templates and ensure their authenticity.
However, your omission is that you redefine org-capture-templates, which will delete your template for my/org-contacts-template.
NOTE: you also define ("d" "Long Tail TODO Task" entry (file+headline "" "Tasks") twice.
Here's how to solve this:
(use-package org-capture
:ensure nil
:after org
:preface
(defvar my/org-contacts-template "* %(org-contacts-template-name)
:PROPERTIES:
:ALIAS: %^{hefis}
:NICKNAME: %^{hefistion}
:PHONE: %^{123-456-789}
:EMAIL: %(org-contacts-template-email)
:ADDRESS: %^{289 Cleveland St. Brooklyn, 11206 NY, USA}
:BIRTHDAY: %^{dd-mm-yyyy}
:NOTE: %^{NOTE}
:END:" "Template for org-contacts.")
:custom
(org-capture-templates
`(("a" "Appointment" entry
(file+headline (concat org-directory "~/Gtd_mylife/org-capture_tpls/my-appointments.org") "Calendar")
"* APPT %^{Description} %^g\n%?\nAdded: %U")
("b" "Book" entry (file+headline "~/Gtd_mylife/org-capture_tpls/books-to_read.org" "books to read")
"* TODO %\\1 - %\\2%?\n%U\n:PROPERTIES:\n:NAME: %^{NAME}\n:TITLE: %^{TITLE}\n:END:\n")
("d" "Long Tail TODO Task" entry (file+headline "" "Tasks")
"* TODO %?\n %u\n %a")
("i" "Dreams" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory "~/Gtd_mylife/org-capture_tpls/my-dreams.org"))
"* %^{Description} %^g %?\nAdded: %U")
("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory "~/Gtd_mylife/org-capture_tpls/my-journal.org"))
"** %^{Heading}")
("l" "Log Time" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory "~/Gtd_mylife/org-capture_tpls/timelog.org"))
"** %U - %^{Activity} :TIME:")
("m" "Brain" entry (function org-brain-goto-end)
"* %i%?"
:empty-lines 1)
("n" "Notes" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory "~/Gtd_mylife/org-capture_tpls/my-notes.org"))
"* %^{Description} %^g %?\nAdded: %U")
("o" "Posts" (file+datetree (concat org-directory "~/blog/content/posts/my-post.org")
"* TODO %^{Description} %^g\n%?\nAdded: %U"))
("t" "Task Diary" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory "~/Gtd_mylife/org-capture_tpls/taskdiary.org"))
"* TODO %^{Description} %^g\n%?\nAdded: %U")
("w" "Website" plain (function org-website-clipper)
"* %a\n%T\n"
:immediate-finish t))))One advice I want to give is to try to organize your templates as best you can. Indeed, org-capture is a formidable weapon for productivity, but your config can quickly become a mess.
To avoid this, try to aerate the code, structure your templates alphabetically, avoid useless comments and favour the creation of templates, especially to avoid structure repetitions as you can have for the templates of your notes and those of your dreams:
"* %^{Description} %^g %?\nAdded: %U").
Here's how to solve this, by adding this template below the :preface keyword:
(use-package org-capture
:ensure nil
:after org
:preface
(defvar my/org-basic-task-template "* %^{Description} %^g %?\nAdded: %U"
"Template for basic task.")
...And so, in org-capture-templates, you can refer to this template like this:
...
("i" "Dreams" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory "~/Gtd_mylife/org-capture_tpls/my-dreams.org")),
my/org-basic-task-template)
("n" "Notes" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory "~/Gtd_mylife/org-capture_tpls/my-notes.org")),
my/org-basic-task-template)
...I hope I was able to answer your question, do not hesitate to rephrase your question if the problem persists, it will be pleasure to answer you 🙂
OrionRandD
How can I join these two templates, so that the firs one becomes only a option in the templates list? (use-package org :ensure org-plus-contrib)
(use-package org-capture :ensure nil :after org :preface (defvar my/org-contacts-template "* %(org-contacts-template-name) :PROPERTIES: :ALIAS: %^{hefis} :NICKNAME: %^{hefistion} :PHONE: %^{123-456-789} :PHONE: %^{123-456-789} :EMAIL: %(org-contacts-template-email) :EMAIL: %(org-contacts-template-email) :ADDRESS: %^{289 Cleveland St. Brooklyn, 11206 NY, USA} :BIRTHDAY: %^{dd-mm-yyyy} :NOTE: %^{NOTE} :END:" "Template for org-contacts.") :custom (org-capture-templates `(("c" "Contact" entry (file+headline "~/org~/Gtd_mylife/org-capture_tpls/my-contacts.org" "Friends"), my/org-contacts-template :empty-lines 1))))
(define-key global-map "\C-cc" 'org-capture)
(setq org-capture-templates '(("a" "Appointment" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory "~/Gtd_mylife/org-capture_tpls/my-appointments.org") "Calendar") "* APPT %^{Description} %^g\n%?\nAdded: %U")
;; for todo tasks
("d" "Long Tail TODO Task" entry (file+headline "" "Tasks") "* TODO %?\n %u\n %a")
;; for tasks
("t" "Task Diary" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory "~/Gtd_mylife/org-capture_tpls/taskdiary.org")) "* TODO %^{Description} %^g\n%?\nAdded: %U")
;; for long tail tasks
("d" "Long Tail TODO Task" entry (file+headline "" "Tasks") "* TODO %?\n %u\n %a")
;; for general notes
("n" "Notes" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory "~/Gtd_mylife/org-capture_tpls/my-notes.org"))
;; for dreams
("i" "Dreams" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory "~/Gtd_mylife/org-capture_tpls/my-dreams.org"))
"* %^{Description} %^g %?\nAdded: %U")
;; for journalling
;; for hugo blogging
"* TODO %^{Description} %^g\n%?\nAdded: %U"))
;; for capturing books to read
;; for log time
;; for capturing chunks of webpages and/or webpages themselves with W3m or EWW