I’m trying to write a template such that I can capture a movie title and put it in my existing org-roam file movies.org, under the heading “Watched.” Here’s that template: (setq org-roam-capture-templates '(... ("m" "movie" plain "%?" :target (file+olp "movies.org" (…

It seems like org-id-get-create expects the buffer to be visiting a file (error ‘org-id-get’ expects a file-visiting buffer) This below seems to work for me (lightly tested). I guess you’d need to adjust the function according to the ID you use (e.g. I use a certain date format instead of uuid). …

[image] jonathan: What am I doing wrong here? You are using an invalid list. From the docstring for org-roam-capture-templates: (file+olp "path/to/file" ("h1" "h2")) The file will be created, prescribed an ID. If the file doesn't contain the outline path (h1, h2), it will be…

Now it runs without error, with this: (setq org-roam-capture-templates '(("d" "default" plain "%?" :target (file+head "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-${slug}.org" "#+title: ${title}\n") :unnarrowed t) ("m" "movie" plain "*** ${title}\n :PROPERTIES:\n :RATING:\n:END:\n%t\n…

Copy and pasted your setq (left buffer below); seems to work on my end (right buffer): [Screenshot from 2021-12-10 22-56-52]

[image] jonathan: It creates a new buffer with the same name but different contents. Could it be you are talking about the transient *Org-capture-...* buffer? You’d need to press C-c C-c to finalize the capture process.

Ah so I figured out what was wrong with the duplicate files—it turns out I had two org files, one called movies.org and one called movies.org with a space at the end. And that was throwing everything off. So now it works as in @nobiot ’s screenshot above. But it’d be really nice to have the headin…

You should be able to call a function with using % as a prefix like this: %(org-id-get-create). I think you can put it in in your template (somewhere after your “***”) — can’t test it now but you can read it in the docstring of org-roam-capture-templates (C-h v).

That doesn’t seem to work. I just get the literal %(org-id-get-create) appear in my capture buffer. With this: (setq org-roam-capture-templates '(("d" "default" plain "%?" :target (file+head "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-${slug}.org" "#+title: ${title}\n") :unnarrowed t) …

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jonathan December 17, 2021, 1:52pm 10

Great! That works. Thanks!

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Help with template and file+olp

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