Org-Mode Homepage

Manual and Reference card

• Read the documentation online. This is a version consisting of many small files, to save bandwidth. If you really need it, you can also have the entire manual in a single monolithic file.
• Download the documentation in other formats: PDF, Info, or TeXInfo.
• Download the Refcard for org-mode, and Kyle Sherman hast created a text version of the reference card
• There is also a Japanese translation of the manual (version 4.60), produced by Takeshi Okano.
• The FAQ is not very up-to-date, but may still answer some of your questions. Please have a look before posting to emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.

Mailing list

There is a mailing list for discussion about org-mode.

• Subscribe to it at this webpage.
• Directly send mail to it. If you are not subscribed, a moderator will look at the message before passing it through to the list. If that has happened once, future messages from your email address will get through immediately, even if you remain unsubscribed.
• Read the list on Gmane through a web interface or with a newsreader.

Tutorials

Tutorials and screencasts are listed on a separate page.

Org-mode, GTD and other task management systems

Org-mode is flexible enough to implement many different ways of organizing your projects. A frequently discusses scheme is David Allen's strategy for Getting Things Done. But it is clearly not the only way to us Org-mode for planning. Here are a couple of links related to this topic.

• John Wiegley has written an excellent document describing his way of using Org-mode as a day planner. See also some later messages for enhancements of his setup: emacs-orgmode-2962, emacs-orgmode-3629
• Charles Cave has written an article/tutorial about the basic elements of GTD and how he implements them in Org-mode.
• There have been several threads on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org related to GTD, the most important ones are:
  • Another GTD question, which contains a discussion about basic GTD aspects. It also contains this
  • Post by Carsten summarizing several options for implementing GTD in org-mode.
  • GTD, Projects and Next Actions in org-mode is a thread where several people describe their personal setup is
  • The SOMEDAY/MAYBE vs. low priorities thread contains a discussion about priorities that is quite instructive.
  • Here is a very instructive post by Pete Phillips explaining why David Allens book is where you should start to learn GTD, and that the Internet and Org-mode only come into the game later, when thinking about the implementation. And since doing GTD the right way will give you lots of free time, don't forget to listen to Pete's music!
• Also on the web you can find information about how people are setting up Org-mode to fit their habits. A few examples:
  • This blog post shows a very simple and clear GTD setup.

Add-Ons

• Piotr Zielinski wrote org-mouse.el which is now distributed with Org-mode. It implements great mouse support for many functions in org-mode.
• David O'Toole is the author of org-publish.el. While this is now part of the Org-mode distribution, you might find the newest bug fixes and developments at his Org-mode page, along with several other projects like org-blog.el and org-publish-escript.el.
• Bastien Guerry has been really prolific in writing interesting add-ons, all available at his org-mode page:
  • a package for using Org-mode as the basis for blogging
  • a LaTeX exporter that is now distributed together with org-mode
  • a special table-of-contents buffer that simplifies navigation
  • a registry to find locations that link a specific document.
• George C.F. Greve wrote org-mairix.el to add links that trigger a mairix search.

Translators

I know about the following attempts to translate from and to Org-mode files:

Alternative distributions

• Mark A. Hershberger has made some Ubuntu packages for org-mode.

Contributing to Org-mode

You can always contribute with ideas and bug reports on the mailing list. If you want to contribute a patch, code snippets, or a full add-on, this is very welcome too! However, I can only make it an official part of Org-mode if you have signed the papers with the Free Software Foundation. Org-mode is distributed as part of Emacs and must therefore adhere to strict rules about the copyright of all included material. If this is what you want to do, here is the form that you have to fill in and send to the FSF. After you received the final copy with signatures, please scan it and send the scan to the maintainer.

Future Development

Org-mode is still developing fast. The best way to stay up-to-date is to join the mailing list where the changes are developed and discusssed.

Here is a loose list of ideas that are still to be processed somehow, when I get to it…