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Org-Mode: Your Life in Plain Text

• News
• Current Version (6.21)
• Downloads
  • The standard distribution
  • The development version
  • Alternative distributions
• Documentation
  • The Org manual
  • Reference card
  • The FAQ
  • Tutorials
• Links
  • Google Tech Talk
  • Mailing list
  • Worg
  • Contributing to Org-mode

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Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes, Project Planning, and Authoring

Org-mode is for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system.

Simplicity

Org-mode is a simple outliner for note-taking and list management. You can learn the basics for using it in five minutes. This may be all you need, and Org-mode will not impose more complex features on you.

Portability

Org files are plain text. You can view and edit them in any editor. Your data is yours forever. Org-mode runs in Emacs, which is available for nearly every platform.

Depth

Org-mode will not let you down when you need more than a simple outline. The full feature set is both broad and deep. The typical answer to "Can it do X?" is "Yes!".

Flexibility

Org-mode is like a Swiss army knife. People use it for Getting Things Done (GTD), as a Day Planner, as a Notebook, for Web and PDF Authoring, and much more.

Support

Org-mode is supported by an active mailing list where questions are answered quickly and effectively.

It's free!

Org is open source software, it is free, like Emacs.

If you'd like to know what other people have said about Org-mode, take a look at our collected quotes about Org.

News

• <2009-01-25 Sun>: Release 6.19
• <2009-01-21 Wed>: Release 6.18c
• <2009-01-20 Tue>: Release 6.18

Current Version (6.21)

The current version is 6.21. To see what has changed in recent releases, check this detailed list of user-visible changes.

This package works on Emacs 23 and 22, and (with minor restrictions) on Emacs 21 and XEmacs 21. Emacs 22.2 ships with Org-mode version 4.67d. Emacs 23.1 release is expected to ship with 6.20h. The latest CVS Emacs trunk usually contains a fairly recent version, but may lag a bit behind the website release.

Downloads

The standard 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. Follow the instructions for Installation and Activation.

The development version

You can check out the latest Org development version (along with every release we ever had) by using git. The git repository is browsable online. To get a local clone use something like the following (from the command line….):

git clone git://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git

Some more information about this can be found in the FAQ, under How do I keep current with Org mode development?

Alternative distributions

There are several alternative distributions of Org:

• The Emacs CVS contains a recent version
• There is also a package on Archlinux, by Jiyunatori.
• The Debian package is maintained by Sebastien Delafond
• The Fink package for Mac OS X by Jesse Alama
• The Ubuntu package by Mark A. Hershberger.

Documentation

The Org manual

• Read the documentation online.
• You can also have the entire manual in a single monolithic file.
• Download the documentation as a PDF document.
• A Japanese translation of the manual (version 4.60), by Takeshi Okano.

Reference card

• Download the Refcard for org-mode
• Kyle Sherman has created a text version of the reference card (Org version 6.07).

The FAQ

• The Org Mode FAQ is user-editable and is maintained by the Worg project.

Tutorials

• A complete list of Tutorials and screencasts is maintained by the Worg project.

Links

Google Tech Talk

Check out the Google Tech Talk about Org-mode.

Mailing list

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

• Subscribe to it at the web interface.
• Directly send mail to it. If you are not subscribed, a moderator will look at the message before passing it through to the list.
• Read the list on Gmane through a web interface or with a newsreader.

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Worg

Worg, created by Bastien Guerry, is a setup to allow users to jointly edit a number of Org-mode files containing documentation about Org-mode, including the Org Mode FAQ and Tutorials. Worg is similar to a wiki in that allows community to edit the contents. However, since it uses a distributed version control system, you do not have to be online while editing it. If you'd like to contribute to Worg, please go to the Worg page, and start from there.

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! We do distribute good add-ons as contributed packages. However, to integrate additions into the Org-mode core, the author needs to assign the copyright to the Free Software Foundation. This is because Org-mode is part of Emacs, which adheres to very strict rules. If you would like to sign the papers, use this form, fill it in and send it to the FSF with a copy to the Org-mode maintainer.