Org-Mode Homepage ================= Author: Carsten Dominik Date: 2007/05/13 09:31:34 Table of Contents ================= Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes and Project Planning Current Version Compatibility Downloads Frequently Asked Questions Mailing list Links Tutorials Org-mode and GTD Add-Ons Future Development Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes and Project Planning ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Org-mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and doing project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system. Org-mode develops organizational tasks around NOTES files that contain information about projects as plain text. Org-mode is implemented on top of outline-mode, which makes it possible to keep the content of large files well structured. Visibility cycling and structure editing help to work with the tree. Tables are easily created with a built-in table editor. Org-mode supports ToDo items, deadlines, time stamps, and scheduling. It dynamically compiles entries into an agenda. Plain text URL-like links connect to websites, emails, Usenet messages, BBDB entries, and any files related to the projects. For printing and sharing of notes, an Org-mode file can be exported as a structured ASCII file, or as HTML. Current Version =============== The current version is 4.74. To see what has changed in recent releases, check this [list of user-visible changes]. Compatibility ============= This package works on Emacs 21 and (with minor restrictions) on XEmacs 21. Version 4.67c will be part of the Emacs 22.1 release. *Attention XEmacs users*: Starting with Org-mode 4.38, Org-mode will only work correctly with XEmacs if you use [noutline.el], a new implementation of outline-mode. Until this package becomes part of XEmacs, you can find it in the xemacs subdirectory of the Org-mode distribution. Just compile it and place it onto you load path, Org-mode will load it automatically. Downloads ========= * Distribution Download as [zip file] or [gzipped tar archive]. These archives contain both the Lisp file org.el and the documentation in PDF and (TeX)Info formats. * Documentation - Read the documentation [online]. - Download the documentation in [PDF], [Info], or [TeXInfo] format. - Download the [Refcard] for org-mode. - There is also a [Japanese translation] of the manual (version 4.60), produced by Takeshi Okano. Frequently Asked Questions ========================== The [FAQ] used to be part of the manual but this is no longer the case. Mailing list ============ There is a mailing list for discussion about org-mode. You can subscribe to it at [this webpage] or directly [send mail to it] (which will make it to the list after the moderator has accepted it. Furthermore you can access the mailing list on [Gmane] through a [web interface] or with a [newsreader]. Links ===== Tutorials --------- - There is a very nice introductory [OrgMode tutorial] by [David O'Toole] covering the basics of TODO lists and the agenda. It has been translated into [French], [Japanese], [Chinese], and [Korean]. Org-mode and GTD ---------------- 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]. Here are a couple of links related to this topic. - [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] summarising 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 - 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 very interesting 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 a package for using Org-mode as the basis for blogging, it is available at [this page]. + Translators I know about the following attempts to translate from and to Org-mode files: - [From Palm TODO database to Orgmode]. This Translator was written by [Olaf Dietsche]. - [From Org-mode to remind] by [Bastien Guerry]. Future Development ------------------ - Here is a [list of ideas] that are still to be processed somehow, when I get to it.