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Org Mode
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Org Mode
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#+TITLE: Org-Mode Homepage
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#+LANGUAGE: en
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#+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
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#+OPTIONS: H:3 num:nil toc:2 \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t *:t TeX:t
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* Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes and Project Planning
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#+HTML: <BASE href="http://orgmode.org/index.html">
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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, HTML, and LaTeX.
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* Current Version (6.05a) and Compatibility
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The current version is 6.05a. To see what has changed in recent
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releases, check this [[file:Changes.html][list of user-visible changes]]. These descriptions
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are extensive, to avoid that people will be printing the manual after
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each incremental release. If you have an older version of the manual,
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just check the release notes and you will be up-to-date.
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This package works on Emacs 23 and 22, and (with minor restrictions)
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on Emacs 21 and XEmacs 21 (where you must also use
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/xemacs/noutline.el/ shipped with Org-mode). The Emacs 22.2 release
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ships with Org-mode version 4.67d. The latest CVS emacs trunk usually
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contains a fairly recent version, but may lag a bit behind the website
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release.
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* Downloads
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** The standard distribution
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Download as [[file:org-6.05a.zip][zip file]] or [[file:org-6.05a.tar.gz][gzipped tar archive]]. These archives contain
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both the Lisp file org.el and the documentation in PDF and (TeX)Info
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formats. A shell script to simplify upgrading to the newest release
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has been posted [[http://www.philfam.co.uk/pete/GTD/org-mode/update-org.sh][here]].
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** The development version
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You can check out the latest Org development version (along with every
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release we ever had) by using git. More information on this page:
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http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode.git
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** Alternative distributions
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There are several alternative distrbutions of Org:
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- The [[http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/%3Fgroup%3Demacs][Emacs CVS]] contains a recent version
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- The Debian packages are planned.
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- Mark A. Hershberger has made some [[https://launchpad.net/~hexmode/+archive][Ubuntu packages]] for Org, but
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these seem to be out of date.
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* Documentation
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** The Org manual
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- Read the documentation [[file:manual/index.html][online]]. This is a version consisting of many
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small files, to save bandwidth.
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- If you really need it, you can also have the entire manual in a
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[[file:org.html][single monolithic file]].
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- Download the documentation in other formats: [[file:org.pdf][PDF]], [[file:org][Info]], or [[file:org.texi][TeXInfo]].
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- There is also a [[http://hpcgi1.nifty.com/spen/index.cgi?OrgMode%2fManual][Japanese translation]] of the manual (version 4.60),
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produced by Takeshi Okano.
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- The Org manual is a GNU Manual released under the GFDL. If you
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want to redistribute Org with a distribution that does not allow
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the GFDL to be used, and if you see no other way to resolve this
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licensing conflict, you must use the special [[file:org_dual_license.texi][dual-license version]]
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of the manual.
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** Reference card
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- Download the [[file:orgcard.pdf][Refcard]] for org-mode
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- Kyle Sherman has created a [[file:orgcard.txt][text version]] of the reference card
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(Org version 4.79).
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** The FAQ
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- The [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php][Org Mode FAQ]] is user-editable and is maintained by the [[http://orgmode.org/worg/][Worg project]].
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* Links
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** Mailing list
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There is a mailing list for discussion about org-mode.
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- Subscribe to it at [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode][this webpage]].
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- Directly [[mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org][send mail to it]]. If you are not subscribed, a moderator
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will look at the message before passing it through to the
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list. If that has happened once, future messages from your email
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address will get through immediately, even if you remain
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unsubscribed.
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- Read the list on [[http://www.gmane.org][Gmane]] through a [[http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode][web interface]] or with a
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[[news://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode][newsreader]].
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#+BEGIN_HTML
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<li><form method="get" action="http://search.gmane.org/">
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<input type="text" name="query">
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<input type="hidden" name="group" value="gmane.emacs.orgmode">
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<input type="submit" value="Search gmane.emacs.orgmode">
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</form>
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#+END_HTML
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** Worg - user-driven knowledge-base about org-mode
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[[http://orgmode.org/worg/][Worg]], created by [[http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/][Bastien Guerry]], is a setup to allow users to jointly
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edit a number of Org-mode files containing documentation about
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Org-mode. This is something like a wiki, but with the advantage that
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you do not have to be online to modify a file. If you'd like to
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contribute your own setup, screenshots, tutorials etc, please go to
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[[http://orgmode.org/worg/][the Worg page]], and start from there.
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** Tutorials
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[[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/index.php][Tutorials and screencasts]] are maintained by the [[http://orgmode.org/worg][Worg project]].
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** Survey
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In November 2007, Charles Cave organized a survey among Org-mode
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users. The answers given in this survey can be found [[file:survey.html][here]].
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** Org-mode, GTD and other task management systems
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Org-mode is flexible enough to implement many different ways of
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organizing your projects. For links and pointers in this area,
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see the [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-gtd-etc.php][Worg page dedicated to task management systems]].
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** Contributing to Org-mode
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You can always contribute with ideas and bug reports on the mailing
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list. If you want to contribute a patch, code snippets, or a full
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add-on, this is very welcome too! However, I can only make it an
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official part of Org-mode if you have signed the papers with the
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Free Software Foundation. Org-mode is distributed as part of Emacs
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and must therefore adhere to strict rules about the copyright of
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all included material. If this is what you want to do, [[file:request-assign-future.txt][here]] is the
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form that you have to fill in and send to the FSF. After you
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received the final copy with signatures, please scan it and send
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the scan to the maintainer.
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** Future Development
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Org-mode is still developing fast. The best way to stay up-to-date
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is to join the mailing list where the changes are developed and
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discussed.
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Here is a loose [[file:todo.org][list of ideas]] that are still to be processed
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somehow, when I get to it...
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** Related Software
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Make an interesting list here!!!!
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[[http://sachachua.com/wp/][Sacha Chua]] about [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/26/emacs-choosing-between-org-and-planner/][Choosing between Planner and Org]].
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