Introduction

Orca is an ORg CApture list of recipes; mainly for capturing from a browser.

The more this package is configured, the less refiling you’ll do on your captures: they will go directly to where they belong.

Here is my example list of configurations:

• Capture URL matching https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs to emacs.org:Reddit
• Capture URL matching https://emacs.stackexchange.com/ to emacs.org:Questions
• If the current buffer is e.g. foo.org and it has a * Tasks heading, capture to foo.org:Tasks
• If nothing else matches, capture to ent.org:Articles.

The package needs ripgrep to be able to detect already-captured links, but also works without.

Configuration

Just requiring the package, only the “capture to current buffer” method will work, since no file paths are recognized:

(require 'orca)

Customize the file paths to your liking using this template:

(setq orca-handler-list
      '((orca-handler-match-url
         "https://www.reddit.com/emacs/"
         "~/Dropbox/org/wiki/emacs.org"
         "Reddit")
        (orca-handler-match-url
         "https://emacs.stackexchange.com/"
         "~/Dropbox/org/wiki/emacs.org"
         "\\* Questions")
        (orca-handler-current-buffer
         "\\* Tasks")
        (orca-handler-file
         "~/Dropbox/org/ent.org"
         "\\* Articles")))

It’s also possible to customize interactively via M-x customize-group RET orca RET.