Jay Dresser <org-m...@jaydresser.us> writes:
> Peter Davis <pfd <at> pfdstudio.com> writes:
>> Frequently when I'm doing a Web search and find pages I like, I want to
> save a link to the page, along with the
>> title and perhaps a
>> few notes. Something like org-mode's capture would be great, but I'd like
> to initiate it from a browser. I
>> imaging hitting a plugin
>> button on the the browser's toolbar to open emacs via emacsclient, and
> essentially do a capture with the
>> link and whatever text I
>> care to enter.
>>
>> Has anyone seen or heard of or written something like this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -pd
>
> Not sure that you need a plug-in or extension, I just use this bookmarklet:
>
> javascript:location.href='org-
> protocol://capture://x/'+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'/'+encodeURIComp
> onent(document.title)+'/'+encodeURIComponent(prompt('Tags?'))
>
> It prompts for the tags, which I separate with ":" (to be org-like).
> This works fine in Chromium and I would think Firefox too.
>
But you still need to register the protocol with the browser. And that
registration step has proven problematic in the past.
--
Nick
