A lightweight Emacs utility for quickly capturing timestamped entries into either Org or Markdown files — complete with transient capture windows and file-format-aware heading styles.

• Logs to either Org or Markdown format based on file extension
• Captures in a transient split window, sort of like Org Capture
• Expects/enforces:
  • `#+TITLE:` for Org files
  • `# Title` for Markdown files
• Minimal by design: just timestamp, title, and your content
• Use log2file-add-current-file to add a file as a target.

Place log2file.el somewhere in your Emacs load path, then:

(use-package log2file
  :load-path "~/path/to/log2file/"
  :commands (log2file log2file-add-current-file log2file-remove-current-file)
  :init
  (setq log2file-targets '("~/logs/dev.org" "~/logs/notes.md")))

Alternatively, use a directory:

(setq log2file-dir "~/logs/")

Start a capture session:

M-x log2file

Add or remove the current file from capture targets:

• M-x log2file-add-current-file
• M-x log2file-remove-current-file

Finalize with C-c C-c or abort with C-c C-k.

#+TITLE: dev

* [2025-04-21 Mon 21:00] Refactored logging
Took the old md-capture and made it format-aware.

# notes

## [2025-04-21 Mon 21:01] Idea
Thinking about a unified log system for plain text files.

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MIT © Mike