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Written by andyc on 2024-12-16 at 12:53

I use emacs and org but sometimes I just want to make one or more quick notes. Sometimes it's genuinely a disposable, transient thought so I viewed org-capture as overkill. Sometimes, I might want to remember what I jotted down and extend it the next day.

I tended to use the scratch buffer and then save (if necessary) to '~/tmp/xxx.txt'. This was clearly sub-optimal.

The built-in #Emacs remember package is much better. Can't believe I've only just discovered it.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/remember.html

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Written by Ihor Radchenko (yantar92) on 2024-12-17 at 17:28

@andyc Fun fact: org-capture started as a fork of remember.el

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Written by clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 on 2024-12-21 at 21:48

@yantar92 @andyc I'll look at what org-capture and remember do. Could someone give a one-liner compare and contrast?

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Written by Ihor Radchenko (yantar92) on 2024-12-25 at 09:51

@clacke @andyc remember.el lets you add plain text into files from a quick popup window.

org-capture.el adds options on where exactly to put your input into files and adds templates for notes.

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