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<title>Org-Mode Homepage</title>
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<meta name="generator" content="Org-mode"/>
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<meta name="generated" content="2008/02/19 09:14:54"/>
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<meta name="author" content="Carsten Dominik"/>
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<h1 class="title">Org-Mode Homepage</h1>
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<div id="table-of-contents">
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<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#sec-1">Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes and Project Planning</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec-2">Current Version (5.22a) and Compatibility</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec-3">Downloads</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec-4">Documentation</a>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#sec-5">Manual and Reference card</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><a href="#sec-6">Links</a>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#sec-7">Mailing list</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec-8">Worg - user-driven knowledge-base about org-mode</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec-9">Tutorials</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec-10">Survey</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec-11">Org-mode, GTD and other task management systems </a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec-12">Add-Ons</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec-13">Translators</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec-17">Alternative distributions</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec-18">Contributing to Org-mode</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec-19">Future Development</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><a href="#sec-20">Related Software</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="sec-1">Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes and Project Planning</h2>
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<BASE href="http://orgmode.org/index.html">
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<p>
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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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</p>
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<p>
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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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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="outline-2">
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<h2 id="sec-2">Current Version (5.22a) and Compatibility</h2>
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<p>
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The current version is 5.22a. To see what has changed in recent
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releases, check this <a href="Changes.html">list of user-visible changes</a>. 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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</p>
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<p>
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This package works on Emacs 22, and (with minor restrictions) on Emacs
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21 and XEmacs 21 (where you must also use <i>noutline.el</i> shipped with
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Org-mode). The Emacs 22.1 release ships with Org-mode version 4.67c.
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The latest CVS emacs trunk usually contains a fairly recent version,
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but may lag a bit behind the website release.
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</p>
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</div>
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<h2 id="sec-3">Downloads</h2>
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<li>Distribution<br/>
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Download as <a href="org-5.22a.zip">zip file</a> or <a href="org-5.22a.tar.gz">gzipped tar archive</a>. 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 <a href="http://www.philfam.co.uk/pete/GTD/org-mode/update-org.sh">here</a>.
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</ul>
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</div>
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<h2 id="sec-4">Documentation</h2>
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<div class="outline-3">
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<h3 id="sec-5">Manual and Reference card</h3>
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Read the documentation <a href="manual/index.html">online</a>. This is a version consisting of many
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small files, to save bandwidth. If you really need it, you can also
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have the entire manual in a <a href="org.html">single monolithic file</a>.
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Download the documentation in other formats: <a href="org.pdf">PDF</a>, <a href="org">Info</a>, or <a href="org.texi">TeXInfo</a>.
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Download the <a href="orgcard.pdf">Refcard</a> for org-mode, and Kyle Sherman hast created a
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<a href="orgcard.txt">text version</a> of the reference card
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There is also a <a href="http://hpcgi1.nifty.com/spen/index.cgi?OrgMode%2fManual">Japanese translation</a> of the manual (version 4.60),
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produced by Takeshi Okano.
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</li>
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<li>
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The <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a> is not very up-to-date, but may still answer some of your
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questions. Please have a look before posting to emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
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</li>
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</ul></div>
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</div>
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<h2 id="sec-6">Links</h2>
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<h3 id="sec-7">Mailing list</h3>
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There is a mailing list for discussion about org-mode.
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</p>
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Subscribe to it at <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode">this webpage</a>.
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<li>
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Directly <a href="mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org">send mail to it</a>. 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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</li>
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<li>
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Read the list on <a href="http://www.gmane.org">Gmane</a> through a <a href="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode">web interface</a> or with a
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<a href="news://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode">newsreader</a>.
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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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</li>
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</ul></div>
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<h3 id="sec-8">Worg - user-driven knowledge-base about org-mode</h3>
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<a href="http://129.199.80.1/~guerry/worg/">Worg</a>, created by <a href="http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/">Bastien Guerry</a>, 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. If you'd like to contribute
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your own setup, screenshots, tutorials etc, please go to <a href="http://129.199.80.1/~guerry/worg/">the Worg page</a>, and start from there.
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</p>
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</div>
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<h3 id="sec-9">Tutorials</h3>
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<p>
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<a href="http://www.legito.net/worg/org-tutorials/index.php">Tutorials and screencasts</a> are maintained by the <a href="http://www.legito.net/worg">Worg project</a>.
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</p>
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</div>
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<h3 id="sec-10">Survey</h3>
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<p>
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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 <a href="survey.html">here</a>.
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</p>
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</div>
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<h3 id="sec-11">Org-mode, GTD and other task management systems </h3>
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<p>Org-mode is flexible enough to implement many different ways of
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organizing your projects. A frequently discusses scheme is <a href="http://www.davidco.com/">David Allen's</a> strategy for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTD">Getting Things Done</a>. But it is clearly not
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the only way to us Org-mode for planning. Here are a couple of
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links related to this topic.
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<a href="http://johnwiegley.com">John Wiegley</a> has written an excellent document describing his
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way of using Org-mode as a <a href="http://johnwiegley.com/org.mode.day.planner.html">day planner</a>. See also some later
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messages for enhancements of his setup:
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<a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/2963">emacs-orgmode-2962</a>, <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/3629">emacs-orgmode-3629</a>
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<a href="http://members.optusnet.com.au/charles57/Creative/">Charles Cave</a> has written an <a href="http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.html">article/tutorial</a> about the basic
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elements of GTD and how he implements them in Org-mode. There
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is also a <a href="http://129.199.80.1/~guerry/org-gtd.html">french translation</a> of this document.
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<li>
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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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<a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/683">Another GTD question</a>, which contains a discussion about basic
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GTD aspects. It also contains this
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<a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/715">Post by Carsten</a> summarizing several options for implementing
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GTD in org-mode.
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<a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/523">GTD, Projects and Next Actions in org-mode</a> is a thread where
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several people describe their personal setup is
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The <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4915">SOMEDAY/MAYBE vs. low priorities</a> thread contains a
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discussion about priorities that is quite instructive.
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<li>
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Here is a <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4832/focus%3D4854">very instructive post</a> by Pete Phillips explaining
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why David Allens book is where you should start to learn GTD,
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and that the Internet and Org-mode only come into the game
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later, when thinking about the implementation. And since
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doing GTD the right way will give you lots of free time, don't
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forget to listen to <a href="http://www.detox-jazz.co.uk/">Pete's music</a>!
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</ul></li>
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<li>
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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 <a href="http://www.brool.com/?p=82">blog post</a> shows a very simple and clear GTD setup.
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</ul></li>
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</ul></div>
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<h3 id="sec-12">Add-Ons</h3>
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<a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pz215/">Piotr Zielinski</a> wrote <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pz215/files/org-mouse.el">org-mouse.el</a> which is now distributed with
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Org-mode. It implements great mouse support for many functions in
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org-mode.
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<li>
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<a href="http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/">David O'Toole</a> is the author of <a href="http://dto.freeshell.org/e/org-publish.el">org-publish.el</a>. 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 <a href="http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/OrgMode.html">Org-mode page</a>, along with
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several other projects like <i>org-blog.el</i> and
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<i>org-publish-escript.el</i>.
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<a href="http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/">Bastien Guerry</a> has been really prolific in writing interesting
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add-ons, all available at his <a href="http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/bastien-org-mode.html">org-mode page</a>:
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a package for using Org-mode as the basis for blogging
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a LaTeX exporter that is now distributed together with
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org-mode
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a special table-of-contents buffer that simplifies navigation
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a registry to find locations that link a specific document.
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</ul></li>
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<li>
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George C.F. Greve wrote <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/org-mairix.el">org-mairix.el</a> to add links that trigger a
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mairix search.
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</ul></div>
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<h3 id="sec-13">Translators</h3>
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<p>
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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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</p>
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<h4 id="sec-14">Org-mode to XXX</h4>
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<a href="http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/u/org2rem.el">From Org-mode to remind</a> by <a href="http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/">Bastien Guerry</a>.
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<li>
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<a href="org-export-freemind-0.1.0.tar.gz">From Org-mode to Freemind</a> by Marco Vezzoli.
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</ul></div>
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<h4 id="sec-15">XXX to Org-mode</h4>
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<a href="http://www.olafdietsche.de/palm/palm2orgmode.pl">From Palm TODO database to Orgmode</a>. This Translator was
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written by <a href="http://www.olafdietsche.de/">Olaf Dietsche</a>.
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From <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/5073">Remind to Org</a> by Detlef Steuer.
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</ul></div>
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<h4 id="sec-16">Bi-directional</h4>
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Unfortunately nothing so far.
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<h3 id="sec-17">Alternative distributions</h3>
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Mark A. Hershberger has made some <a href="https://launchpad.net/~hexmode/+archive">Ubuntu packages</a> for org-mode.
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<h3 id="sec-18">Contributing to Org-mode</h3>
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<p>
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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, <a href="request-assign-future.txt">here</a> 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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</p>
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<h3 id="sec-19">Future Development</h3>
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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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discusssed.
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Here is a loose <a href="todo.html">list of ideas</a> that are still to be processed
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somehow, when I get to it…
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<h2 id="sec-20">Related Software</h2>
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<p><a href="http://sachachua.com/wp/">Sacha Chua</a> about <a href="http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/26/emacs-choosing-between-org-and-planner/">Choosing between Planner and Org</a>.
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<div id="postamble"><p class="author"> Author: Carsten Dominik
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<a href="mailto:carsten at orgmode dot org"><carsten at orgmode dot org></a>
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<p class="date"> Date: 2008/02/19 09:14:54</p>
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