Fastest way to take a quick note on MacOS or Windows?
reddit / emacs

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Status-Detective-783 · 2022-02-20 18:08

Suppose I'm browsing in Chrome.  I want to take a quick org-capture
note.  But I don't want to have to `⌘-TAB` (or `ALT-TAB` in Windows)
over to emacs and then `C-c c` to org-capture. That takes too much
time and breaks my flow. I just want to press some magic MacOS (or
Windows) key that will automagically switch me to emacs AND do the
org-capture command.

Bonus points if doing the above can also automatically carry over the
URL that I'm currently on.

I assume I'd need to use some kind of "macro" software.

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radicalzephyr · 2022-02-20 19:17

This is more of a MacOS question than an emacs one because you want to
automate the  interactive with the OS. But you may want to look into
[Automater](https://macosxautomation.com/automator/index.html) or
[AppleScript](https://macosxautomation.com/applescript/index.html).

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orissus · 2022-02-20 20:23

Hammerspoon for automation, uses Lua script, pretty easy to add own
functions. And Karabiner to bind CAPS as metas key. So when I want to
capture to Org mode I invoke Caps+V and am greeted with hammerspoon
prompt. It runs she’ll script that append to a file ( can be simple
bash with >> or emacs capture). -edit autocorrect typos.

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trae · 2022-02-21 03:13

Similar to what I do. SUPER-F toggles an external org-capture window,
so I never have to switch to emacs.

SUPER-K captures the frontmost Safari window title & url to Inbox.

Edit: The super key is driven by Karabiner. It's bound to Shift-
Option-Control-Command OR my Cap lock key.

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NihilistDandy · 2022-02-21 07:17

You probably want `org-protocol`.

https://github.com/xuchunyang/setup-org-protocol-on-mac

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.html

I have a bookmarklet that captures links of interest to my inbox for
review later; my template includes the link, the page title, and any
text I have selected on capture.

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BobKoss · 2022-02-21 15:42

[https://github.com/kuanyui/copy-as-org-
mode](https://github.com/kuanyui/copy-as-org-mode)


just ran across this this morning. Haven’t tried it yet.

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Status-Detective-783 · 2022-02-21 16:40

Thanks! Evidently, that's for Mozilla (Firefox).

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fragbot2 · 2022-02-22 06:27

I'm glad someone responded with org-protocol.  I've set it up several
times on various OSX machines.  I had some good notes on it but the
external application link is dead so I'll need to do it from memory.
First, I created a script using Apple's script editor:

    on open location my_data
        do shell script "/usr/local/bin/emacsclient --no-wait '" &
my_data & "'"
    end open location

I'm pretty sure that after doing this I either created or edited the
Info.plist file associated with the script:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
    <plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
        <string>com.apple.ScriptEditor.id.OrgProtocol</string>
        <key>CFBundleName</key>
        <string>OrgProtocol</string>
        <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
        <string>1.0</string>
        <key>WindowState</key>
        <dict>
                <key>bundleDividerCollapsed</key>
                <true/>
                <key>bundlePositionOfDivider</key>
                <real>0.0</real>
                <key>dividerCollapsed</key>
                <false/>
                <key>eventLogLevel</key>
                <integer>2</integer>
                <key>name</key>
                <string>ScriptWindowState</string>
                <key>positionOfDivider</key>
                <real>443</real>
                <key>savedFrame</key>
                <string>1167 349 700 678 0 0 1920 1055 </string>
                <key>selectedTab</key>
                <string>description</string>
        </dict>
            <key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
            <string>org-protocol</string>
            <array>
             <dict>
               <key>CFBundleURLName</key>
               <string>org-protocol</string>
               <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
                 <array>
                     <string>org-protocol</string>
                 </array>
             </dict>
            </array>
    </dict>
    </plist>

I then created two bookmarks--one that grabs links and the other that
grabs a link + data:

    javascript:location.href='org-protocol://store-link?url=%27+encode
URIComponent(location.href)+%27&title=%27+encodeURIComponent(document.
title)

    javascript:location.href='org-protocol://capture?template=c%27+%27
&url=%27+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href)+%27&title=%27+encode
URIComponent(document.title)+%27&body=%27+encodeURIComponent(window.ge
tSelection());

While it's tricky to setup the first time, it works really well.