Re: `org-capture' loads all the files in `org-directory'

[Bruno Barbier]

Noel Errenil <errelinaaron@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello, org community
>
> I ran into the titled issue and haven't found any solution or explanation:
>
> First, I start Emacs and there are just a few buffers such as *scratch* and
> *Messages*.
>
> Then, I fire `org-capture', captur a note and `C-c C-c' to save the captured
> content.
>
> Suddenly all the files under ~/projects/org will be loaded into the buffer
> list, which confuses me so much. Those that have nothing to do with
> capturing or capture-templates are loaded into Emacs, which makes
> little sense to me.
>

FWIW, in my case, org seems to open org files that are necessary to
identify the capture target, like when refiling somewhere else. Using
`C-c C-c', org does not open other files though, just the targetted one.

Cleaning up your org agenda files, if possible, might reduce the number
of files org needs to load.

  (customize-option 'org-agenda-files)

Bruno

> I'm running Emacs 28.1 on (Gentoo) Linux. I can reproduce this on my
> macOS too.
>
> Currently I have `org-directory' set to `~/projects/org'. My
> `org-capture' config is as follows:
>
> ;; vars
> (with-eval-after-load 'org
>   (setq-default fill-column 80)
>   (setq
>    org-deadline-warning-days 0
>    org-startup-folded 'content
>    org-hide-leading-stars t
>    org-agenda-include-diary t
>    org-src-fontify-natively t
>    org-src-preserve-indentation t
>    org-edit-source-content-indentation 0
>    org-indent-indentation-per-level 1
>    org-directory "~/projects/org"
>    org-agenda-files (concat org-directory "/agenda.org")
>    org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory "/notes.org")))
>
> ;; org-capture templates
> (setq org-capture-templates
>       '(("t" "Tasks")
>         ("td" "With Dealines" entry     ; todos->deadline
>                (file+headline "tasks.org" "Deadlines")
>                "* TODO %? %^G\nDEADLINE: %T" :kill-buffer t :prepend t)
>         ("ts" "Scheduled" entry         ; todos->scheduled
>                (file+headline "tasks.org" "TODOS")
>                "* TODO %? %^G\nSCHEDULED: %T" :kill-buffer t :prepend t)
>         ;; memos
>         ("m" "Memo" entry
>          (file+headline "memo.org" "MEMO")
>          "* %? %^G\n%U" :kill-buffer t :prepend t)
>         ;; notes
>         ("n" "Daily Notes" entry
>          (file+headline "notes.org" "NOTES")
>          "* %? %^G\n%U" :kill-buffer t :prepend t)
>         ;; readings
>         ("r" "Readings")
>         ("ra" "Article" entry
>          (file+headline "readings.org" "ARTICLE")
>          "* TODO %^{Short title for heading} %^G \nTTL: %^{Long title}
> \nSRC: %^{Link} \n%u \nSUM: %^{Quick note?}"
>          :kill-buffer t)
>         ("rb" "Book" entry
>          (file+headline "readings.org" "BOOK")
>          "* TODO %^{Short title for heading} %^G \nTTL: %^{Long title}
> \nSRC: %^{Link} \n%u \nSUM: %^{Quick note?}"
>          :kill-buffer t)))
>
> I just expect that only the capture template will be loaded during capturing
> and the template buffer should be killed (as config-ed) after capturing.
>
> What am I doing wrong? Any advice? Thank you so much in advance.