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  36 <h1 class="title">Org-Mode Homepage</h1>
  37 <div id="table-of-contents">
  38 <h2>Table of Contents</h2>
  39 <ul>
  40 <li><a href="#sec-1">Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes and Project Planning</a></li>
  41 <li><a href="#sec-2">Current Version (5.19) and Compatibility</a></li>
  42 <li><a href="#sec-3">Downloads</a></li>
  43 <li><a href="#sec-4">Documentation</a>
  44 <ul>
  45 <li><a href="#sec-5">Manual and Reference card</a></li>
  46 </ul>
  47 </li>
  48 <li><a href="#sec-6">Links</a>
  49 <ul>
  50 <li><a href="#sec-7">Mailing list</a></li>
  51 <li><a href="#sec-8">Tutorials</a></li>
  52 <li><a href="#sec-9">Org-mode, GTD and other task management systems </a></li>
  53 <li><a href="#sec-10">Add-Ons</a></li>
  54 <li><a href="#sec-11">Translators</a></li>
  55 <li><a href="#sec-15">Alternative distributions</a></li>
  56 <li><a href="#sec-16">Contributing to Org-mode</a></li>
  57 <li><a href="#sec-17">Future Development</a></li>
  58 </ul>
  59 </li>
  60 </ul>
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  63 <div class="outline-2">
  64 <h2 id="sec-1">Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes and Project Planning</h2>
  65
  66
  67
  68
  69 <BASE href="http://orgmode.org/index.html">
  70
  71 <p>
  72 Org-mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and doing
  73 project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system.
  74 </p>
  75 <p>
  76 Org-mode develops organizational tasks around NOTES files that contain
  77 information about projects as plain text.  Org-mode is implemented on
  78 top of outline-mode, which makes it possible to keep the content of
  79 large files well structured.  Visibility cycling and structure editing
  80 help to work with the tree.  Tables are easily created with a built-in
  81 table editor.  Org-mode supports ToDo items, deadlines, time stamps,
  82 and scheduling.  It dynamically compiles entries into an agenda.
  83 Plain text URL-like links connect to websites, emails, Usenet
  84 messages, BBDB entries, and any files related to the projects.  For
  85 printing and sharing of notes, an Org-mode file can be exported as a
  86 structured ASCII file, HTML, and LaTeX.
  87 </p>
  88 </div>
  89
  90 <div class="outline-2">
  91 <h2 id="sec-2">Current Version (5.19) and Compatibility</h2>
  92
  93
  94 <p>
  95 The current version is 5.19.  To see what has changed in recent
  96 releases, check this <a href="Changes.html">list of user-visible changes</a>.  These descriptions
  97 are extensive, to avoid that people will be printing the manual after
  98 each incremental release.  If you have an older version of the manual,
  99 just check the release notes and you will be up-to-date.
 100 </p>
 101 <p>
 102 This package works on Emacs 22, and (with minor restrictions) on Emacs
 103 21 and XEmacs 21 (where you must also use <i>noutline.el</i> shipped with
 104 Org-mode).  The Emacs 22.1 release ships with Org-mode version 4.67c.
 105 The latest CVS emacs trunk usually contains a fairly recent version,
 106 but may lag a bit behind the website release.
 107 </p>
 108 </div>
 109
 110 <div class="outline-2">
 111 <h2 id="sec-3">Downloads</h2>
 112
 113
 114 <ul>
 115 <li>Distribution<br/>
 116 Download as <a href="org-5.19.zip">zip file</a> or <a href="org-5.19.tar.gz">gzipped tar archive</a>.  These archives contain
 117 both the Lisp file org.el and the documentation in PDF and (TeX)Info
 118 formats.  A shell script to simplify upgrading to the newest release
 119 has been posted <a href="http://www.philfam.co.uk/pete/GTD/org-mode/update-org.sh">here</a>.
 120
 121 </li>
 122 </ul>
 123 </div>
 124
 125 <div class="outline-2">
 126 <h2 id="sec-4">Documentation</h2>
 127
 128
 129 <div class="outline-3">
 130 <h3 id="sec-5">Manual and Reference card</h3>
 131
 132 <ul>
 133 <li>
 134 Read the documentation <a href="manual/index.html">online</a>.  This is a version consisting of many
 135 small files, to save bandwidth.  If you really need it, you can also
 136 have the entire manual in a <a href="org.html">single monolithic file</a>.
 137 </li>
 138 <li>
 139 Download the documentation in other formats: <a href="org.pdf">PDF</a>, <a href="org">Info</a>, or <a href="org.texi">TeXInfo</a>.
 140 </li>
 141 <li>
 142 Download the <a href="orgcard.pdf">Refcard</a> for org-mode, and Kyle Sherman hast created a
 143 <a href="orgcard.txt">text version</a> of the reference card
 144 </li>
 145 <li>
 146 There is also a <a href="http://hpcgi1.nifty.com/spen/index.cgi?OrgMode%2fManual">Japanese translation</a> of the manual (version 4.60),
 147 produced by Takeshi Okano.
 148 </li>
 149 <li>
 150 The <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a> is not very up-to-date, but may still answer some of your
 151 questions.  Please have a look before posting to emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
 152
 153 </li>
 154 </ul></div>
 155 </div>
 156
 157 <div class="outline-2">
 158 <h2 id="sec-6">Links</h2>
 159
 160
 161
 162 <div class="outline-3">
 163 <h3 id="sec-7">Mailing list</h3>
 164
 165
 166 <p>
 167 There is a mailing list for discussion about org-mode.
 168 </p>
 169 <ul>
 170 <li>
 171 Subscribe to it at <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode">this webpage</a>.
 172 </li>
 173 <li>
 174 Directly <a href="mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org">send mail to it</a>.  If you are not subscribed, a moderator
 175 will look at the message before passing it through to the
 176 list.  If that has happened once, future messages from your email
 177 address will get through immediately, even if you remain
 178 unsubscribed.
 179 </li>
 180 <li>
 181 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
 182 <a href="news://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode">newsreader</a>.
 183 <li><form method="get" action="http://search.gmane.org/">
 184 <input type="text" name="query">
 185 <input type="hidden" name="group" value="gmane.emacs.orgmode">
 186 <input type="submit" value="Search gmane.emacs.orgmode">
 187 </form>
 188
 189 </li>
 190 </ul></div>
 191
 192 <div class="outline-3">
 193 <h3 id="sec-8">Tutorials</h3>
 194
 195
 196 <p>
 197 <a href="tutorials.html">Tutorials and screencasts</a> are listed on a separate page.
 198 </p>
 199 </div>
 200
 201 <div class="outline-3">
 202 <h3 id="sec-9">Org-mode, GTD and other task management systems </h3>
 203
 204 <p>Org-mode is flexible enough to implement many different ways of
 205 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
 206 the only way to us Org-mode for planning.  Here are a couple of
 207 links related to this topic.
 208 </p>
 209 <ul>
 210 <li>
 211 <a href="http://johnwiegley.com">John Wiegley</a> has written an excellent document describing his
 212 way of using Org-mode as a <a href="http://johnwiegley.com/org.mode.day.planner.html">day planner</a>. See also some later
 213 messages for enhancements of his setup:
 214 <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>
 215
 216 </li>
 217 <li>
 218 <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
 219 elements of GTD and how he implements them in Org-mode.
 220
 221 </li>
 222 <li>
 223 There have been several threads on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org related
 224 to GTD, the most important ones are:
 225 <ul>
 226 <li>
 227 <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/683">Another GTD question</a>, which contains a discussion about basic
 228 GTD aspects.  It also contains this
 229 </li>
 230 <li>
 231 <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/715">Post by Carsten</a> summarizing several options for implementing
 232 GTD in org-mode.
 233 </li>
 234 <li>
 235 <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/523">GTD, Projects and Next Actions in org-mode</a> is a thread where
 236 several people describe their personal setup is
 237 </li>
 238 <li>
 239 The <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4915">SOMEDAY/MAYBE vs. low priorities</a> thread contains a
 240 discussion about priorities that is quite instructive.
 241 </li>
 242 <li>
 243 Here is a <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4832/focus%3D4854">very instructive post</a> by Pete Phillips explaining
 244 why David Allens book is where you should start to learn GTD,
 245 and that the Internet and Org-mode only come into the game
 246 later, when thinking about the implementation.  And since
 247 doing GTD the right way will give you lots of free time, don't
 248 forget to listen to <a href="http://www.detox-jazz.co.uk/">Pete's music</a>!
 249 </li>
 250 </ul></li>
 251 <li>
 252 Also on the web you can find information about how people are
 253 setting up Org-mode to fit their habits.  A few examples:
 254
 255 <ul>
 256 <li>
 257 This <a href="http://www.brool.com/?p=82">blog post</a> shows a very simple and clear GTD setup.
 258
 259 </li>
 260 </ul></li>
 261 </ul></div>
 262
 263 <div class="outline-3">
 264 <h3 id="sec-10">Add-Ons</h3>
 265
 266
 267 <ul>
 268 <li>
 269 <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
 270 Org-mode. It implements great mouse support for many functions in
 271 org-mode.
 272
 273 </li>
 274 <li>
 275 <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
 276 now part of the Org-mode distribution, you might find the newest
 277 bug fixes and developments at his <a href="http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/OrgMode.html">Org-mode page</a>, along with
 278 several other projects like <i>org-blog.el</i> and
 279 <i>org-publish-escript.el</i>.
 280
 281 </li>
 282 <li>
 283 <a href="http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/">Bastien Guerry</a> has been really prolific in writing interesting
 284 add-ons, all available at his <a href="http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/bastien-org-mode.html">org-mode page</a>:
 285 <ul>
 286 <li>
 287 a package for using Org-mode as the basis for blogging
 288 </li>
 289 <li>
 290 a LaTeX exporter that is now distributed together with
 291 org-mode
 292 </li>
 293 <li>
 294 a special table-of-contents buffer that simplifies navigation
 295 </li>
 296 <li>
 297 a registry to find locations that link a specific document.
 298
 299 </li>
 300 </ul></li>
 301 <li>
 302 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
 303 mairix search.
 304
 305 </li>
 306 </ul></div>
 307
 308 <div class="outline-3">
 309 <h3 id="sec-11">Translators</h3>
 310
 311
 312 <p>
 313 I know about the following attempts to translate from and to
 314 Org-mode files:
 315 </p>
 316
 317 <div class="outline-4">
 318 <h4 id="sec-12">Org-mode to XXX</h4>
 319
 320
 321 <ul>
 322 <li>
 323 <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>.
 324
 325 </li>
 326 <li>
 327 <a href="org-export-freemind-0.1.0.tar.gz">From Org-mode to Freemind</a> by Marco Vezzoli.
 328
 329 </li>
 330 </ul></div>
 331
 332 <div class="outline-4">
 333 <h4 id="sec-13">XXX to Org-mode</h4>
 334
 335
 336 <ul>
 337 <li>
 338 <a href="http://www.olafdietsche.de/palm/palm2orgmode.pl">From Palm TODO database to Orgmode</a>.  This Translator was
 339 written by <a href="http://www.olafdietsche.de/">Olaf Dietsche</a>.
 340
 341 </li>
 342 </ul></div>
 343
 344 <div class="outline-4">
 345 <h4 id="sec-14">Bi-directional</h4>
 346
 347
 348 <p>
 349 Unfortunately nothing so far.
 350 </p>
 351 </div>
 352 </div>
 353
 354 <div class="outline-3">
 355 <h3 id="sec-15">Alternative distributions</h3>
 356
 357
 358 <ul>
 359 <li>
 360 Mark A. Hershberger has made some <a href="https://launchpad.net/~hexmode/+archive">Ubuntu packages</a> for org-mode.
 361
 362 </li>
 363 </ul></div>
 364
 365 <div class="outline-3">
 366 <h3 id="sec-16">Contributing to Org-mode</h3>
 367
 368
 369 <p>
 370 You can always contribute with ideas and bug reports on the mailing
 371 list.  If you want to contribute a patch, code snippets, or a full
 372 add-on, this is very welcome too!  However, I can only make it an
 373 official part of Org-mode if you have signed the papers with the
 374 Free Software Foundation.  Org-mode is distributed as part of Emacs
 375 and must therefore adhere to strict rules about the copyright of
 376 all included material.  If this is what you want to do, <a href="request-assign-future.txt">here</a> is the
 377 form that you have to fill in and send to the FSF.  After you
 378 received the final copy with signatures, please scan it and send
 379 the scan to the maintainer.
 380 </p>
 381 </div>
 382
 383 <div class="outline-3">
 384 <h3 id="sec-17">Future Development</h3>
 385
 386
 387 <p>
 388 Org-mode is still developing fast.  The best way to stay up-to-date
 389 is to join the mailing list where the changes are developed and
 390 discusssed.
 391 </p>
 392 <p>
 393 Here is a loose <a href="todo.html">list of ideas</a> that are still to be processed
 394 somehow, when I get to it&hellip;
 395 </p>
 396 </div>
 397 </div>
 398 <div id="postamble"><p class="author"> Author: Carsten Dominik
 399 <a href="mailto:carsten at orgmode dot org">&lt;carsten at orgmode dot org&gt;</a>
 400 </p>
 401 <p class="date"> Date: 2008/01/18 12:46:32</p>
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