Interactively enter headline under which to place an entry using capture

Question

Using capture templates like the one below, I can add entries to different headlines in a file. How can I manually enter a headline during capture, instead of setting up eac

Answer 1

I wrote a function to be used with file+function which will prompt for a location on capture.

It uses the internal prompting function of org-refile so we get completions of headings in the prompt (with maxlevels overridden to 9). When the user enters an unknown heading, it creates it at the end of the file.

(defun org-ask-location ()
  (let* ((org-refile-targets '((nil :maxlevel . 9)))
         (hd (condition-case nil
                 (car (org-refile-get-location nil nil t t))
               (error (car org-refile-history)))))
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (outline-next-heading)
    (if (re-search-forward
         (format org-complex-heading-regexp-format (regexp-quote hd))
         nil t)
        (goto-char (point-at-bol))
      (goto-char (point-max))
      (or (bolp) (insert "\n"))
      (insert "* " hd "\n")))
    (end-of-line))

In your case, you use it like this:

(setq org-capture-templates
 '(("l" "Log" entry
    (file+function "c:/Org/log.org" org-ask-location)
    "\n\n** %?\n<%<%Y-%m-%d %a %T>>"
    :empty-lines 1))