My simple note taking system in Emacs

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Steps to the simplest and most efficient note-taking system in Emacs!

NO external packages required

Create a records.org file and add it to org-agenda

Create an org-capture template to capture a note

(setq org-capture-templates
    '(("r" "Record"
 plain
 (file "/home/red/Documents/notes/org/records.org")
 "* %^{Title}  :%^{Tags}:\n%U%i\n%?\n")))

Create some notes using org-capture

Link Formats in org
Org recognizes plain URIs, possibly wrapped within angle brackets23, and activate them as clickable links.
The general link format, however, looks like this:
[ [ LINK ] [ DESCRIPTION ] ]

Bank Details
First Nedbank Client
Acc no. 1237363539373
Pin: 18542

Password Google: agag654aga7a76a6ah

Create a global key to find my notes

(global-set-key (kbd "<f7>") 'org-tags-view)

org-tags-view creates a global list of tag matches from all agenda files

Search for notes by tags

Search uses Boolean logic:

+bank+investment-capitec

Making things fancy

M-x org-id-get-create

[[id:29605fd3-0f52-4be3-835b-6ea04eba9273][records.org]]

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