Minimalist Emacs Org Capture Configuration - Using Emacs as a notebook and notebook only

init.el

; Usage:
;   put the following files to ~/.emacs.d/init.el
;   Fire up Emacs. 
;   C-c c t will add an todo item to ~/org/todo.org
;   C-c c j will add a journal item to ~/org/journal.org
;   C-c s will add some date, before you check it later with C-c a t
;   Org Capture Template borrowed from Doom Emacs. Thank you!
;   M-x nerd-icons-install-fonts    will fix the missing icon on bottom left corner.

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c l") #'org-store-link)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c a") #'org-agenda)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c c") #'org-capture)

(with-eval-after-load 'org
                      (setq org-directory "~/org") 
                      (setq org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory "/notes.org"))
                      (setq org-capture-templates
                            '(
                              ("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline "~/org/todo.org" "Tasks") "* TODO %?\n %i\n %a")
                              ("n" "Personal notes" entry (file+headline "~/org/personal_notes.org" "Inbox") "* %u %?\n%i\n%a" :prepend t)
                              ("N" "Work notes" entry (file+headline "~/org/work_notes.org" "Inbox") "* %u %?\n%i\n%a" :prepend t)
                              ("j" "Journal" entry (file+olp+datetree "~/org/journal.org") "* %U %?\n%i\n%a" :prepend t)
                             )
                      )
                      (setq org-agenda-files '("~/org"))
)


; LaTeX Chinese support - add the following lines to the head of your org file. Then C-c e l p
; #+TITLE: Journal
; #+LATEX_CLASS: ctexart
; #+LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [letter]
; #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[driver=dvipdfm,margin=1in,a4paper]{geometry}
; #+OPTIONS: toc:nil num:nil

; sudo apt install texlive texlive-lang-chinese texlive-xetex

 (with-eval-after-load 'ox-latex
           (add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
                        '("ctexart" "\\documentclass[11pt]{ctexart}"
                          ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
                          ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
                          ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")
                          ("\\paragraph{%s}" . "\\paragraph*{%s}")
                          ("\\subparagraph{%s}" . "\\subparagraph*{%s}")))
           (setq org-latex-default-class "ctexart")
           (setq org-latex-compiler "xelatex"))



; macOS shortcut - bind to Control-Option-c; like Omnifocus's Control-Option-Space
;#!/bin/bash 
;socket_file=$(lsof -c Emacs | grep server | tr -s " " | cut -d' ' -f8)
;if [[ $socket_file == "" ]]; then        
;   # emacs $@ &
;   /Application/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs $@ &
;else
;  /opt/homebrew/bin/emacsclient $@ -n -s $socket_file  org-protocol://capture?template=j
;fi
;osascript -e 'tell application "Emacs"' -e 'activate' -e 'end tell'

https://macowners.club/posts/org-capture-from-everywhere-macos/

https://christiantietze.de/posts/2018/05/emacs-org-mode-global-capture-macos/

emacsclient org-protocol://capture?template=j

- [ ] todo item
- [X] done item

will need:

#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{amssymb}

courtesy of BG1REN