How do I create org-roam dailies with a template file?
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Future-Fisherman · 2022-12-23 14:31

Hi,

I have something like this in my doom emacs config.el file:

    (setq org-roam-dailies-capture-templates
          '(("d" "default" entry
             "* Section 1\n** Section 1.1\n* Section 2\n"
             :target (file+head "%<%Y-%m-%d>.org"
                                "#+title: %<%Y-%m-%d>\n"))))

And this will pre-write the **"\* Section 1\\n\*\* Section 1.1\\n\*
Section 2\\n"** string into every new daily capture that I make.


I would like to use a template file instead of this, so that every
time I capture a daily it will pre-write whatever is in some
"[template.org](https://template.org)" file.


I have searched everywhere for an answer but I can't seem to find any.

I appreciate any help

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phr46 · 2022-12-23 14:53

(setq org-roam-dailies-capture-templates
      '(("d" "default" entry
         (file "~/template.org")
         :target (file+head "%<%Y-%m-%d>.org"
                            "#+title: %<%Y-%m-%d>\n"))))

This works for org-capture-templates too BTW. It's easy to miss in the
middle of the big docs for these variables.

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Future-Fisherman · 2022-12-23 15:01

I get the following error:

    Error running timer ‘org-reveal’: (wrong-type-argument number-or-
marker-p nil)

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phr46 · 2022-12-23 15:12

I don't use org-reveal, and it looks like it's for making slideshows.
It shouldn't have anything to do with this.

Are you getting this every time you try to make an org-roam capture?
Does the capture fail to go through because of it?

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Future-Fisherman · 2022-12-23 15:18

Yes, basically any command org-roam-dailies-capture will fail and not
even open a file because of this error above..

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phr46 · 2022-12-23 15:25

I don't know, it works fine for me.

If I have a \~/template.org file, it works perfectly.

If I remove the file, then the capture works but substitutes the text
with "\* Template file \~/template.org not found"

If I change the template file to not be an org entry, as in just a
"hello" instead of "\* hello", then I get an error "Capture template
'd': Template is not a valid Org entry or tree"

But I don't see the one you mentioned. It's got to be something else
different in the config :(

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Future-Fisherman · 2022-12-23 15:58

The problem was my template file.

I just put something like "123" in it to test and it didn't work. When
I changed it to "\* 123" it does work now

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holmus-hiddyn · 2022-12-25 19:55

agh, thank you, this was driving me insane and I had no idea why I was
seeing it