Org-capture for Firefox

Description

This extension is a bridge between Firefox and org-mode trough org-protocol.

It avoids the painful process of adding an handler for the org-protocol:// scheme.

Features

Hotkey (C-M-r or accel-alt-r in Firefox terms),
Open a new emacsclient window,
Configurable default template (one of the shortcut letters defined in org-capture-templates, see Capture templates),
Configurable sub-protocol (see Defining custom handlers).

Download

See the AMO page: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/org-mode-capture/

Or directly, using:

Usage

Add to your org-mode configuration a template capture like the following example:

(setq org-capture-templates
      (quote (
              ("x" "org-protocol" entry (file "~/web.org")
               "* TODO Review %c\n%U\n%i\n" :immediate-finish))))

Install org-capture and configure it to use your template id (in this case x for the capture sub-protocol).

Build

If you just want to have a look to the source code, you may browse the repository on http://hub.darcs.net/oschwand/firefox-org-capture.

Get the sources with darcs:

darcs get http://chadok.info/darcs/firefox-org-capture/

And then, with the Firefox sdk enabled:

cd firefox-org-capture
make

Bugs

The selection buffer for org-capture is not cleared when the selection is canceled in Firefox.
Disabling and enabling the extension is needed to take a change in the hotkey into account.

Contacts

Please send any comment or bug report to Olivier Schwander.