If I understand you correctly, the following code should achieve what you want. The code reuses org-refile interface to complete id: links.
(defun org-id-prompt-id () "Prompt for the id during completion of id: link." (let ((org-refile-history nil) (org-refile-cache nil) (org-refile-target-verify-function nil)) (let ((prompt-ans (org-refile-get-location "Select org entry"))) (prog1 (or (org-id-get (seq-find #'markerp prompt-ans) 'create) (user-error "Cannot find ID of the entry: %s" prompt-ans)) (setq org-id-history org-refile-history) (setq org-id-cache org-refile-cache))))) (defun org-id-link-complete (&optional arg) "Completion function for id: link." (let* ((id (org-id-prompt-id))) (format "id:%s" id))) (defun org-id-link-desk (link desk) "Description function for id: link." (or desk (let ((id (cadr (split-string link ":")))) (org-with-point-at (org-id-find id 'marker) (org-get-heading 'strip 'all 'the 'extra))))) (org-link-set-parameters "id" :complete #'org-id-link-complete :desk #'org-id-link-desk) Daryl Manning <dwm+orgm...@wakatara.com> writes: > I use ivy and org-refile to process my inbox.org file hyper-efficiently and > get things into my GTD system. > > In a recent discussion on org-roam (which nicely links to files in a nice > wiki-like manner) it occurred to me if I had a similar interface to search > for headlines in the manner of org-refile and then insert them effortlessly > without having to switch to a doc and copy/store them and then switching > back to my doc and inserting them, I'd be a happy camper. > > Is there a package/functions that does/do that in some fashion (say > configurable to avoid link sprawl so say, like 3 heading levels down and to > files in specific directories like deft). Googling did not give joy, though > I noticed someone had used a similar approach for addressing link *within* > a document, but not quite there (swiper and worf combo and an ivy-org-ref > package looked interesting). > > (I always worry when I post these questions that someone is going to just > say "but did you not know about M-x org-insert-link-like-ivy-with-refile" > so go gentle on me if I've missed something obvious. It seems I often do. > This weekend in particular I've added on a whole bunch of small but in the > aggregate, large productivity improvements to my emacs setup which I > approached solving the wrong way until I asked and someone mentioned > another way to do things, so.... ). > > thanks, > Daryl. -- Ihor Radchenko, PhD, Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano) State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China Email: yanta...@gmail.com, ihor_radche...@alumni.sutd.edu.sg