Org capture template %a link ONLY when I'm capturing from an email

I hope one of you fine folk can help. I'm trying to set up mu4e and integrate it with my org-mode based GTD system. I already have org capture templates set up to make next action entries. What I want to do now, is make the next action entry have a link to the email that the action is about (i.e. the one I was reading when I invoked the capture template)... but if I invoke the capture template from someplace other than an email, I don't want there to be a link in it. So if I'm in an email, I want `C-c c a w` to open this template: ("aw" "Work Related" entry (file+headline "~/mygtd.org" "Work") "* TODO %? %a %u \n\n ") But if I'm someplace other than an email, I want the same key combination `C-c c a w` to open this template: ("aw" "Work Related" entry (file+headline "~/mygtd.org" "Work") "* TODO %? %u \n\n ") Which is exactly the same, except it has no `%a` in it. How would I do that?

Actually, I think I may have solved my problem with a rather practical workaround. While an automation would be REALLY nice, I think this will work: While reading the email, store the link with `C-c l`. Then do `C-c c a w` to open the capture template. Then put the link in manually with `C-c C-l`. It's a little more keyboard work, but should be pretty fast in practice.

An even more practical workaround is to just use two different bindings for the two templates.

Have you seen https://orgmode.org/manual/Templates-in-contexts.html?

Hej Hej, Just some quick and dirty example how you can do this: (defun my-org-capture-shananiganz (&rest args) (if (string= (buffer-name) "NAME OF EMAIL BUFFER") (setq org-capture-templates '(("aw" "Work Related" entry (file+headline "~/mygtd.org" "Work") "* TODO %? %a %u \n\n "))) (setq org-capture-templates '(("aw" "Work Related" entry (file+headline "~/mygtd.org" "Work") "* TODO %? %u \n\n "))))) (advice-add 'org-capture :before 'my-org-capture-shananiganz) Hope this helps. It should give you the rough structure. Cheers, OlMon

Came in here to post this solution, /u/EnoughUnit5. [doct makes managing these easier, too] (https://www.github.com/progfolio/doct#contexts)

I did see this, yes. Maybe it was just late at night but I didn't manage to connect the dots. How does it help?

Thanks! doct looks interesting, if only to make my .emacs file a little easier to read. Right now my capture template setup is rather hard on the eyes.

Yeah, I thought of that - unfortunately my capture template setup is already near the limit of practicality, so I don't want to add more if I can avoid it. It's not just adding one extra, it's adding about 4 different ones: One for each context where I am likely to want to link an email in the TODO.

From the page > To control whether a capture template should be accessible from a specific context, you can customize org-capture-templates-contexts. Let’s say, for example, that you have a capture template “p” for storing Gnus emails containing patches. So you could only make that capture only available when called via a message.