Re: Bring up a screen giving option to open a series of orgmode files

[Jean Louis]

* Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> [2020-11-25 06:43]:
> > Now I hope that I can use org-capture to invoke other functions from
> > external programs.
> 
> In general, you can define your own protocols. See
> org-protocol-protocol-alist docstring for details how to define custom
> protocols executing arbitrary elisp code.

Thank you Ihor. I know this all could be in the manual, and I read
manuals all the time but never read it fully. Without these references
I would not easily discover those useful functions.

When there is reference such as URL, I am actually following it and
researching the subject. Few minutes research here and then are
sparing me time on repetitive tasks in futures. 

> > I would like to use org-capture to get data while invoking some
> > Elisp, that I can capture into database. Do you think that is
> > possible straight somehow?
> >
> > That capture does not go into Org but that I can redirect it to other
> > elisp function?
> 
> You can add your own function to org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook and
> do whatever you want with the captured text, like passing it to external
> program. Once done, you can just call (org-capture-kill) to abort the
> capture and not save the data to org.
> 
> > Chrome is no go here as I do not like getting tracked by Google. But
> > it is similar extension
> 
> I just listed the possibilities. I personally use qutebrowser where I
> can directly call external scripts.

While I did use qutebrowser many times, did not know about the
scripts. Please state some examples how you call those external
scripts. I am interested if:

- qutebrowser, once HTML is loaded or any file, can transmit this file
  in a script to external program to parse it, collect meta data and
  index it somewhere

- in particular I would be interested if qutebrowser could be used to
  convert the HTML on the fly to OPML by using external script so to
  get chunks finely grained such as paragraphs, headings of course are
  included making HTML better outlined and structured for further
  import into both Org files and yet private Hyperscope database.

You think that could work?

Any examples how you use qutebrowser with external scripts?