# How to capture to org daily under a specific heading **URL:** \ **Category:** How To\ **Created:** [December 15, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/how-to-capture-to-org-daily-under-a-specific-heading/2892 "2022-12-15T18:27:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![troam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@troam](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/troam)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/how-to-capture-to-org-daily-under-a-specific-heading/2892/1 "2022-12-15T18:27:07Z")
Hello, I was following this article to create daily journal entries, and they shared this capture template: ```auto (setq org-roam-dailies-capture-templates '(("d" "default" entry "* %<%I:%M %p>: %?" :if-new (file+head "%<%Y-%m-%d>.org" "#+title: %<%Y-%m-%d>\n")))) ``` How can I modify this so that the timestamped entry would be placed under a heading in the daily org file. For example: ```auto * Notes ** 10:00 AM: Figured out how to capture entries under the "Notes" heading! ``` ---
**Author:** ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 6:47am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/how-to-capture-to-org-daily-under-a-specific-heading/2892/2 "2022-12-16T06:47:07Z")
I believe [this](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/need-help-with-org-roam-dailies-capture-template/2882/4) might help; you’d need to tweak it a little. ---
**Author:** ![troam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@troam](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/troam)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 5:22am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/how-to-capture-to-org-daily-under-a-specific-heading/2892/3 "2022-12-18T05:22:37Z")
Thanks! That worked! Writing this here in case it helps others: I couldn’t find any documentation in the manual for the `file+head+olp` or even `file+head` target type. It turns out that the description for these is in the `org-roam-capture-templates` variable docstring. ---
**Author:** ![shahensha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@shahensha](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/shahensha)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 5:15am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/how-to-capture-to-org-daily-under-a-specific-heading/2892/4 "2023-10-26T05:15:55Z")
@troam Can you please share your final code? @nobiot Is it possible to take the heading under which I want to add the subheading as an input from the user rather than hardcoding it to a particular value? ---
**Author:** ![troam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@troam](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/troam)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/how-to-capture-to-org-daily-under-a-specific-heading/2892/5 "2023-10-27T17:30:44Z")
Here’s what I’m using: ```auto (setq org-roam-dailies-capture-templates '( ("l" "Daily Log Entry" entry "** %<%I:%M %p>: %?" :target (file+head+olp "%<%Y-%m-%d>.org" "#+title: %<%Y-%m-%d>\n\n* Log\n:PROPERTIES:\n:VISIBILITY: children\n:END:\n" ("Log")) :unnarrowed t) )) ``` ---
**Author:** ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 9:14am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/how-to-capture-to-org-daily-under-a-specific-heading/2892/6 "2023-10-29T09:14:09Z")
Based on @troam, you can replace `"Log"` with `"%^{prompt}"` according to the documentation string of `org-roam-capture-templates`, like this below. It works on my end. You can change the “Type node” in the way you want. ```plaintext (setq org-roam-dailies-capture-templates '(("l" "Daily Log Entry" entry "** %<%I:%M %p>: %?" :target (file+head+olp "%<%Y-%m-%d>.org" "#+title: %<%Y-%m-%d>\n\n* Log\n:PROPERTIES:\n:VISIBILITY: children\n:END:\n" ("%^{Type node}")) :unnarrowed t))) ``` ---
**Author:** ![shahensha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@shahensha](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/shahensha)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/how-to-capture-to-org-daily-under-a-specific-heading/2892/7 "2023-11-30T23:30:34Z")
@troam @nobiot Thank you so much for being helpful. This works for me. Although, I realized that I have to type in the exact heading or else it creates a new one instead of failing). Is there a way to rather let me choose from the existing headlines in the file? Or fail instead of creating a new one, thereby making sure no unnecessary headlines are created. ---
**Author:** ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2023, 5:35am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/how-to-capture-to-org-daily-under-a-specific-heading/2892/8 "2023-12-02T05:35:51Z")
> [@shahensha](#): > > Is there a way to rather let me choose from the existing headlines in the file? Or fail instead of creating a new one, thereby making sure no unnecessary headlines are created I think that you’d need to code your own thing if you really need a solution exactly as you describe. If you have a few headlines for this capture and know what they are beforehand, you can list them in the capture template and select one when you capture a new note. If interested, I suggest you to refer to [this part of documentation string](https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam/blob/main/org-roam-capture.el#L241-L243) of org-roam-capture-templates: