Those who watch my Orgmode tutorial videos know that I got the habit to create a daily plan every day with links to my org files where the tasks are defined in detail. So far I created a small function that copies the ID property an item to the copy buffer, so that I can paste it to my daily plans. But this is still a lot of manual work. So I looked for improvements.
Today I hacked a bit with Emacs Lisp and added some lines to my function. The first goal was that I can press my hotkey „F5“ also in the agenda buffer, because I realized that I always press F5 there and then get the wrong IDs in my daily plans, because it then didn’t add anything to the copy buffer.
The next idea was to construct a full link, its of no use to paste just the ID into a link. So I added some more lines and constructed a complete link with an ID target and as a text I use the headline of the item. The Lisp code looks like that:
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(defun my/copy-idlink-to-clipboard() "Copy an ID link with the headline to killring, if no ID is there then create a new unique ID. This function works only in org-mode or org-agenda buffers. The purpose of this function is to easily construct id:-links to org-mode items. If its assigned to a key it saves you marking the text and copying to the killring." (interactive) (when (eq major-mode 'org-agenda-mode) ;switch to orgmode (org-agenda-show) (org-agenda-goto)) (when (eq major-mode 'org-mode) ; do this only in org-mode buffers (setq mytmphead (nth 4 (org-heading-components))) (setq mytmpid (funcall 'org-id-get-create)) (setq mytmplink (format "[[id:%s][%s]]" mytmpid mytmphead)) (kill-new mytmplink) (message "Copied %s to killring (clipboard)" mytmplink) )) (global-set-key (kbd "<f5>") 'my/copy-idlink-to-clipboard) |
With this hack creating links in my daily plans is fast and easy.
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