#+TITLE: Desktop registry #+STARTUP: showall After reading [[https://ericjmritz.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/emacs-desktops/][this post]] I started using =desktop.el= as a simple project file-like system. The only problem was that remembering which desktops were where and switching between them is bothersome. This module tries to fix that. * Installation If you have [[http://marmalade-repo.org/][Marmalade]] set up you can just use: : M-x package-install desktop-registry * Usage You can use =desktop-registry-prepend-directory= to add a new directory to the registry, or =desktop-registry-prepend-current-desktop= to add the currently loaded desktop to the registry. If you enable =desktop-registry-auto-register= it will automatically add new desktop files to the registry when you use =desktop-save=. To switch between desktops you can use =desktop-registry-change-desktop=, this will prompt (with completion) for the directory you would like to load. When you're done with a desktop or want to get rid of a desktop for another reason you can use =desktop-registry-remove-desktop=. ** With org-capture-templates The =desktop-registry-current-desktop= can be used to insert the currently loaded desktop into an org capture template. #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (add-to-list 'org-capture-templates '("t" "Task" entry nil "* TODO %? :%(desktop-registry-current-desktop):")) #+END_SRC