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Org-Mode Homepage
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Author: Carsten Dominik <dominik at science dot uva dot nl>
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Date: 2007/05/13 09:31:34
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Table of Contents
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Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes and Project Planning
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Current Version
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Compatibility
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Downloads
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Mailing list
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Links
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Tutorials
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Org-mode and GTD
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Add-Ons
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Future Development
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Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes and Project Planning
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Org-mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and doing
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project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system.
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Org-mode develops organizational tasks around NOTES files that contain
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information about projects as plain text. Org-mode is implemented on
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top of outline-mode, which makes it possible to keep the content of
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large files well structured. Visibility cycling and structure editing
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help to work with the tree. Tables are easily created with a built-in
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table editor. Org-mode supports ToDo items, deadlines, time stamps,
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and scheduling. It dynamically compiles entries into an agenda.
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Plain text URL-like links connect to websites, emails, Usenet
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messages, BBDB entries, and any files related to the projects. For
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printing and sharing of notes, an Org-mode file can be exported as a
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structured ASCII file, or as HTML.
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Current Version
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The current version is 4.74. To see what has changed in recent
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releases, check this [list of user-visible changes].
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Compatibility
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This package works on Emacs 21 and (with minor restrictions) on
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XEmacs 21. Version 4.67c will be part of the Emacs 22.1 release.
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*Attention XEmacs users*: Starting with Org-mode 4.38, Org-mode will
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only work correctly with XEmacs if you use [noutline.el], a new
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implementation of outline-mode. Until this package becomes part of
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XEmacs, you can find it in the xemacs subdirectory of the Org-mode
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distribution. Just compile it and place it onto you load path,
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Org-mode will load it automatically.
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Downloads
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=========
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* Distribution
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Download as [zip file] or [gzipped tar archive]. These archives
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contain both the Lisp file org.el and the documentation in PDF
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and (TeX)Info formats.
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* Documentation
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- Read the documentation [online].
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- Download the documentation in [PDF], [Info], or [TeXInfo] format.
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- Download the [Refcard] for org-mode.
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- There is also a [Japanese translation] of the manual (version 4.60), produced by Takeshi Okano.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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The [FAQ] used to be part of the manual but this is no longer the case.
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Mailing list
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There is a mailing list for discussion about org-mode. You can
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subscribe to it at [this webpage] or directly [send mail to it] (which
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will make it to the list after the moderator has accepted it.
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Furthermore you can access the mailing list on [Gmane] through a
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[web interface] or with a
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[newsreader].
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Links
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Tutorials
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- There is a very nice introductory [OrgMode tutorial] by [David O'Toole] covering the basics of TODO lists and the agenda. It
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has been translated into [French], [Japanese], [Chinese], and [Korean].
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Org-mode and GTD
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Org-mode is flexible enough to implement many different ways of
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organizing your projects. A frequently discusses scheme is [David Allen's] strategy for [Getting Things Done]. Here are a couple of
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links related to this topic.
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- [Charles Cave] has written an [article/tutorial] about the basic
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elements of GTD and how he implements them in Org-mode.
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- There have been several threads on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org related
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to GTD, the most important ones are:
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- [Another GTD question], which contains a discussion about basic
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GTD aspects. It also contains this
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- [Post by Carsten] summarising several options for implementing
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GTD in org-mode.
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- [GTD, Projects and Next Actions in org-mode] is a thread where
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several people describe their personal setup is
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- Also on the web you can find information about how people are
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setting up Org-mode to fit their habits. A few examples:
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- This [blog post] shows a very simple and clear GTD setup.
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Add-Ons
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- [Piotr Zielinski] wrote [org-mouse.el] which is now distributed with
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Org-mode. It implements very interesting mouse support for many
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functions in org-mode.
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- [David O'Toole] is the author of [org-publish.el]. While this is
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now part of the Org-mode distribution, you might find the newest
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bug fixes and developments at his [Org-mode page], along with
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several other projects like /org-blog.el/ and
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/org-publish-escript.el/.
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- [Bastien Guerry] has a package for using Org-mode as the basis for
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blogging, it is available at [this page].
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+ Translators
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I know about the following attempts to translate from and to
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Org-mode files:
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- [From Palm TODO database to Orgmode]. This Translator was
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written by [Olaf Dietsche].
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- [From Org-mode to remind] by [Bastien Guerry].
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Future Development
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- Here is a [list of ideas] that are still to be processed somehow,
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when I get to it.
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