org-capture-filetype

A plugin that adds custom filetypes to orgmode captures

Why?

orgmode capture templates are my most used feature. I use it daily for journaling, bookmarking, task management, etc. One thing that I also like to use it for is capturing ledger entries, but since the templates all use the org filetype for capture I’d lose out on my completion and formatting. So I wrote this plugin so that I could have the full capability of my ledger config when capturing.

Usage

This plugins replaces the default open_template method in nvim-orgmode. So it must be required after your orgmode configuration.

require('orgmode').setup(opts)
require('org-capture-filetype')

Adding a filetype to a template is as simple as adding a filetype key. Here’s my ledger template for example (I use fennel, but it should be easy to understand)

{:description "Ledger Entry"
 :template "\n%<%m-%d> %^{Description}\n    %?"
 :target (string.format "~/.local/ledger/%s.ledger" (vim.fn.strftime "%Y-%m"))
 :filetype :ledger}