Org mode for handling incoming calls

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I'm not great at elisp and Im sure there are better ways to do this, but here's my take: (defun filter-contact-headlines (heading) (let* ((parent (org-element-property :parent heading)) (parent-heading (org-element-property :raw-value parent))) (when (string= parent-heading "Work") (org-element-property :raw-value heading)))) (add-to-list 'org-capture-templates '("c" "call" entry (file "~/org/calls.org") "* Call Title\n:PoROPERTIES:\nCONTACT: %(completing-read \"Please choose a contact:\" (org-element-map (with-temp-buffer (mapc 'insert-file-contents org-contacts-files) (org-element-parse-buffer 'heading)) 'headline 'filter-contact-headlines))%\n")) Ideally, there would be less elisp in the template, but there was a macro expansion error related to `with-temp-buffer` I couldn't get around. This assumes your contacts files have "Work" as the top-level heading, and contact names as a direct subheading. It should find contacts across multiple files, provided they have the same structure. Creating an org link to a contact using completing-read is also doable.

I've edited the post with my "solution" :)