Integration with org-capture-templates?

[krisbalintona]

Awesome package!

I did have a question though: what is the recommended way to integrate with the existing org-capture-templates? As far as I can tell from the README, users would have to, say, create a transient menu of their own that is separate from org-capture-templates.

[ergopractice]

Thank you for your interest and for finding time for feedback!

You are right, there is no recommended way for integrating with org-capture-templates yet. Indeed, the transient menu could be a way to organize org-catch commands. Good suggestion! I did not think of it because i either bind-key my org-catch commands and rely on muscle memory or just M-x it by name.

Adding to your suggestion i thought of the following org-capture friendly features:

• A macro that defines an org-catch command that somehow injects it into org-capture dispatcher.
• Some sort of dispatcher for org-catch commands (e.g., list commands with org-catch-* prefix).
• An exporter from org-capture-templates to org-catch templates/commands. (The user will need to come up with proper command names because org-capture only has description and key binding.)

Please, let me know what you think. What feature is the most missing? Maybe some more ideas?

[krisbalintona]

@ergopractice Thanks for giving a few of your thoughts.

Personally, I'm most preferential to the first option (integration with the existing functionality of org-capture). This makes using the built-in functionality to using org-catch seamless. However, I haven't looked at the org-capture internals, so I don't know how feasible this is.

Perhaps the second most convenient alternative would then be the third option: porting the user's built-in org-capture-templates to an org-catch variant that also shows the org-catch-specific templates a user defines.