I’d like for my default new node creation to create a new heading with it’s own id in a target file. I currently have set up my org-roam-capture-templates as such: (setq org-roam-capture-templates '(("d" "default" entry "* ${title}" :target (file "/home/eddie/orgnotes/org-roam…

That is very close, however when I run org-roam-node-insert and create a new node, the link uses the id for the file, not the node. When I run org-roam-node-insert on an existing node it links correctly, however. Would there be a way to fix this issue?

I had a quick look at the current code. It does not look to be designed to work in the way you would like. The headline node is not created in time to be passed to the capture finalize function, which inserts a new ID link. I could suggest two options: Code it yourself (with others’ help – I can’…

I set up the following to capture with the standard org-capture and the org-capture templates. The key is to create an ID automatically in the capture buffer with the hook: :hook (org-capture-mode . org-id-get-create). I could not get it to work with org-roam-capture as it seems to use the ID of the…

Huh, that’s a good idea. That’ll create an id from org-capture, but org-roam-node-insert still links to the file, not the heading. I suspect this may be what I need to do - I’ll post back here when I do.

[image] thread314: but org-roam-node-insert still links to the file, not the heading. At least for me it links to the node in question, but maybe that’s because I don’t have any ID for the file.

Odd, for me it just seems to link the first id tag it comes across in the file. No matter, the hook strategy also creates an id tag for all my captures, which I don’t like. I think I’ll just stop trying to fight the package and just have all my org nodes be files. Thanks for the tips/help.

I use org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook for this: (defun nom/org-roam-capture-create-id () "Create id for captured note and add it to org-roam-capture-template." (when (and (not org-note-abort) (org-roam-capture-p)) (org-roam-capture--put :id (org-id-get-create)))) (add-hook '…

How to set up org-roam-capture-templates to create a node headline?

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