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  13 <h1 class="title">Org-Mode Homepage</h1>
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  15 <h2>Table of Contents</h2>
  16 <ul>
  17 <li><a href="#sec-1">Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes and Project Planning</a></li>
  18 <li><a href="#sec-2">Current Version (5.21) and Compatibility</a></li>
  19 <li><a href="#sec-3">Downloads</a></li>
  20 <li><a href="#sec-4">Documentation</a>
  21 <ul>
  22 <li><a href="#sec-5">Manual and Reference card</a></li>
  23 </ul>
  24 </li>
  25 <li><a href="#sec-6">Links</a>
  26 <ul>
  27 <li><a href="#sec-7">Mailing list</a></li>
  28 <li><a href="#sec-8">Worg - user-driven knowledge-base about org-mode</a></li>
  29 <li><a href="#sec-9">Tutorials</a></li>
  30 <li><a href="#sec-10">Survey</a></li>
  31 <li><a href="#sec-11">Org-mode, GTD and other task management systems </a></li>
  32 <li><a href="#sec-12">Add-Ons</a></li>
  33 <li><a href="#sec-13">Translators</a></li>
  34 <li><a href="#sec-17">Alternative distributions</a></li>
  35 <li><a href="#sec-18">Contributing to Org-mode</a></li>
  36 <li><a href="#sec-19">Future Development</a></li>
  37 </ul>
  38 </li>
  39 <li><a href="#sec-20">Related Software</a></li>
  40 </ul>
  41 </div>
  42
  43 <div class="outline-2">
  44 <h2 id="sec-1">Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes and Project Planning</h2>
  45
  46
  47
  48
  49 <BASE href="http://orgmode.org/index.html">
  50
  51 <p>
  52 Org-mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and doing
  53 project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system.
  54 </p>
  55 <p>
  56 Org-mode develops organizational tasks around NOTES files that contain
  57 information about projects as plain text.  Org-mode is implemented on
  58 top of outline-mode, which makes it possible to keep the content of
  59 large files well structured.  Visibility cycling and structure editing
  60 help to work with the tree.  Tables are easily created with a built-in
  61 table editor.  Org-mode supports ToDo items, deadlines, time stamps,
  62 and scheduling.  It dynamically compiles entries into an agenda.
  63 Plain text URL-like links connect to websites, emails, Usenet
  64 messages, BBDB entries, and any files related to the projects.  For
  65 printing and sharing of notes, an Org-mode file can be exported as a
  66 structured ASCII file, HTML, and LaTeX.
  67 </p>
  68 </div>
  69
  70 <div class="outline-2">
  71 <h2 id="sec-2">Current Version (5.21) and Compatibility</h2>
  72
  73
  74 <p>
  75 The current version is 5.21.  To see what has changed in recent
  76 releases, check this <a href="Changes.html">list of user-visible changes</a>.  These descriptions
  77 are extensive, to avoid that people will be printing the manual after
  78 each incremental release.  If you have an older version of the manual,
  79 just check the release notes and you will be up-to-date.
  80 </p>
  81 <p>
  82 This package works on Emacs 22, and (with minor restrictions) on Emacs
  83 21 and XEmacs 21 (where you must also use <i>noutline.el</i> shipped with
  84 Org-mode).  The Emacs 22.1 release ships with Org-mode version 4.67c.
  85 The latest CVS emacs trunk usually contains a fairly recent version,
  86 but may lag a bit behind the website release.
  87 </p>
  88 </div>
  89
  90 <div class="outline-2">
  91 <h2 id="sec-3">Downloads</h2>
  92
  93
  94 <ul>
  95 <li>Distribution<br/>
  96 Download as <a href="org-5.21.zip">zip file</a> or <a href="org-5.21.tar.gz">gzipped tar archive</a>.  These archives contain
  97 both the Lisp file org.el and the documentation in PDF and (TeX)Info
  98 formats.  A shell script to simplify upgrading to the newest release
  99 has been posted <a href="http://www.philfam.co.uk/pete/GTD/org-mode/update-org.sh">here</a>.
 100
 101 </li>
 102 </ul>
 103 </div>
 104
 105 <div class="outline-2">
 106 <h2 id="sec-4">Documentation</h2>
 107
 108
 109 <div class="outline-3">
 110 <h3 id="sec-5">Manual and Reference card</h3>
 111
 112 <ul>
 113 <li>
 114 Read the documentation <a href="manual/index.html">online</a>.  This is a version consisting of many
 115 small files, to save bandwidth.  If you really need it, you can also
 116 have the entire manual in a <a href="org.html">single monolithic file</a>.
 117 </li>
 118 <li>
 119 Download the documentation in other formats: <a href="org.pdf">PDF</a>, <a href="org">Info</a>, or <a href="org.texi">TeXInfo</a>.
 120 </li>
 121 <li>
 122 Download the <a href="orgcard.pdf">Refcard</a> for org-mode, and Kyle Sherman hast created a
 123 <a href="orgcard.txt">text version</a> of the reference card
 124 </li>
 125 <li>
 126 There is also a <a href="http://hpcgi1.nifty.com/spen/index.cgi?OrgMode%2fManual">Japanese translation</a> of the manual (version 4.60),
 127 produced by Takeshi Okano.
 128 </li>
 129 <li>
 130 The <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a> is not very up-to-date, but may still answer some of your
 131 questions.  Please have a look before posting to emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
 132
 133 </li>
 134 </ul></div>
 135 </div>
 136
 137 <div class="outline-2">
 138 <h2 id="sec-6">Links</h2>
 139
 140
 141
 142 <div class="outline-3">
 143 <h3 id="sec-7">Mailing list</h3>
 144
 145
 146 <p>
 147 There is a mailing list for discussion about org-mode.
 148 </p>
 149 <ul>
 150 <li>
 151 Subscribe to it at <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode">this webpage</a>.
 152 </li>
 153 <li>
 154 Directly <a href="mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org">send mail to it</a>.  If you are not subscribed, a moderator
 155 will look at the message before passing it through to the
 156 list.  If that has happened once, future messages from your email
 157 address will get through immediately, even if you remain
 158 unsubscribed.
 159 </li>
 160 <li>
 161 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
 162 <a href="news://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode">newsreader</a>.
 163 <li><form method="get" action="http://search.gmane.org/">
 164 <input type="text" name="query">
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 168
 169 </li>
 170 </ul></div>
 171
 172 <div class="outline-3">
 173 <h3 id="sec-8">Worg - user-driven knowledge-base about org-mode</h3>
 174
 175
 176 <p>
 177 <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
 178 edit a number of Org-mode files containing documentation about
 179 Org-mode.  This is something like a wiki.  If you'd like to contribute
 180 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.
 181 </p>
 182 </div>
 183
 184 <div class="outline-3">
 185 <h3 id="sec-9">Tutorials</h3>
 186
 187
 188 <p>
 189 <a href="tutorials.html">Tutorials and screencasts</a> are listed on a separate page.
 190 </p>
 191 </div>
 192
 193 <div class="outline-3">
 194 <h3 id="sec-10">Survey</h3>
 195
 196
 197 <p>
 198 In November 2007, Charles Cave organized a survey among Org-mode
 199 users.  The answers given in this survey can be found <a href="survey.html">here</a>.
 200 </p>
 201 </div>
 202
 203 <div class="outline-3">
 204 <h3 id="sec-11">Org-mode, GTD and other task management systems </h3>
 205
 206 <p>Org-mode is flexible enough to implement many different ways of
 207 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
 208 the only way to us Org-mode for planning.  Here are a couple of
 209 links related to this topic.
 210 </p>
 211 <ul>
 212 <li>
 213 <a href="http://johnwiegley.com">John Wiegley</a> has written an excellent document describing his
 214 way of using Org-mode as a <a href="http://johnwiegley.com/org.mode.day.planner.html">day planner</a>. See also some later
 215 messages for enhancements of his setup:
 216 <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>
 217
 218 </li>
 219 <li>
 220 <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
 221 elements of GTD and how he implements them in Org-mode.  There
 222 is also a <a href="http://129.199.80.1/~guerry/org-gtd.html">french translation</a> of this document.
 223
 224 </li>
 225 <li>
 226 There have been several threads on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org related
 227 to GTD, the most important ones are:
 228
 229 <ul>
 230 <li>
 231 <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/683">Another GTD question</a>, which contains a discussion about basic
 232 GTD aspects.  It also contains this
 233 </li>
 234 <li>
 235 <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/715">Post by Carsten</a> summarizing several options for implementing
 236 GTD in org-mode.
 237 </li>
 238 <li>
 239 <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/523">GTD, Projects and Next Actions in org-mode</a> is a thread where
 240 several people describe their personal setup is
 241 </li>
 242 <li>
 243 The <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4915">SOMEDAY/MAYBE vs. low priorities</a> thread contains a
 244 discussion about priorities that is quite instructive.
 245 </li>
 246 <li>
 247 Here is a <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4832/focus%3D4854">very instructive post</a> by Pete Phillips explaining
 248 why David Allens book is where you should start to learn GTD,
 249 and that the Internet and Org-mode only come into the game
 250 later, when thinking about the implementation.  And since
 251 doing GTD the right way will give you lots of free time, don't
 252 forget to listen to <a href="http://www.detox-jazz.co.uk/">Pete's music</a>!
 253
 254 </li>
 255 </ul></li>
 256 <li>
 257 Also on the web you can find information about how people are
 258 setting up Org-mode to fit their habits.  A few examples:
 259
 260 <ul>
 261 <li>
 262 This <a href="http://www.brool.com/?p=82">blog post</a> shows a very simple and clear GTD setup.
 263
 264 </li>
 265 </ul></li>
 266 </ul></div>
 267
 268 <div class="outline-3">
 269 <h3 id="sec-12">Add-Ons</h3>
 270
 271
 272 <ul>
 273 <li>
 274 <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
 275 Org-mode. It implements great mouse support for many functions in
 276 org-mode.
 277
 278 </li>
 279 <li>
 280 <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
 281 now part of the Org-mode distribution, you might find the newest
 282 bug fixes and developments at his <a href="http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/OrgMode.html">Org-mode page</a>, along with
 283 several other projects like <i>org-blog.el</i> and
 284 <i>org-publish-escript.el</i>.
 285
 286 </li>
 287 <li>
 288 <a href="http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/">Bastien Guerry</a> has been really prolific in writing interesting
 289 add-ons, all available at his <a href="http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/bastien-org-mode.html">org-mode page</a>:
 290 <ul>
 291 <li>
 292 a package for using Org-mode as the basis for blogging
 293 </li>
 294 <li>
 295 a LaTeX exporter that is now distributed together with
 296 org-mode
 297 </li>
 298 <li>
 299 a special table-of-contents buffer that simplifies navigation
 300 </li>
 301 <li>
 302 a registry to find locations that link a specific document.
 303
 304 </li>
 305 </ul></li>
 306 <li>
 307 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
 308 mairix search.
 309
 310 </li>
 311 </ul></div>
 312
 313 <div class="outline-3">
 314 <h3 id="sec-13">Translators</h3>
 315
 316
 317 <p>
 318 I know about the following attempts to translate from and to
 319 Org-mode files:
 320 </p>
 321
 322 <div class="outline-4">
 323 <h4 id="sec-14">Org-mode to XXX</h4>
 324
 325
 326 <ul>
 327 <li>
 328 <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>.
 329
 330 </li>
 331 <li>
 332 <a href="org-export-freemind-0.1.0.tar.gz">From Org-mode to Freemind</a> by Marco Vezzoli.
 333
 334 </li>
 335 </ul></div>
 336
 337 <div class="outline-4">
 338 <h4 id="sec-15">XXX to Org-mode</h4>
 339
 340
 341 <ul>
 342 <li>
 343 <a href="http://www.olafdietsche.de/palm/palm2orgmode.pl">From Palm TODO database to Orgmode</a>.  This Translator was
 344 written by <a href="http://www.olafdietsche.de/">Olaf Dietsche</a>.
 345
 346 </li>
 347 <li>
 348 From <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/5073">Remind to Org</a> by Detlef Steuer.
 349
 350 </li>
 351 </ul></div>
 352
 353 <div class="outline-4">
 354 <h4 id="sec-16">Bi-directional</h4>
 355
 356
 357 <p>
 358 Unfortunately nothing so far.
 359 </p>
 360 </div>
 361 </div>
 362
 363 <div class="outline-3">
 364 <h3 id="sec-17">Alternative distributions</h3>
 365
 366
 367 <ul>
 368 <li>
 369 Mark A. Hershberger has made some <a href="https://launchpad.net/~hexmode/+archive">Ubuntu packages</a> for org-mode.
 370
 371 </li>
 372 </ul></div>
 373
 374 <div class="outline-3">
 375 <h3 id="sec-18">Contributing to Org-mode</h3>
 376
 377
 378 <p>
 379 You can always contribute with ideas and bug reports on the mailing
 380 list.  If you want to contribute a patch, code snippets, or a full
 381 add-on, this is very welcome too!  However, I can only make it an
 382 official part of Org-mode if you have signed the papers with the
 383 Free Software Foundation.  Org-mode is distributed as part of Emacs
 384 and must therefore adhere to strict rules about the copyright of
 385 all included material.  If this is what you want to do, <a href="request-assign-future.txt">here</a> is the
 386 form that you have to fill in and send to the FSF.  After you
 387 received the final copy with signatures, please scan it and send
 388 the scan to the maintainer.
 389 </p>
 390 </div>
 391
 392 <div class="outline-3">
 393 <h3 id="sec-19">Future Development</h3>
 394
 395
 396 <p>
 397 Org-mode is still developing fast.  The best way to stay up-to-date
 398 is to join the mailing list where the changes are developed and
 399 discusssed.
 400 </p>
 401 <p>
 402 Here is a loose <a href="todo.html">list of ideas</a> that are still to be processed
 403 somehow, when I get to it&hellip;
 404 </p>
 405 </div>
 406 </div>
 407
 408 <div class="outline-2">
 409 <h2 id="sec-20">Related Software</h2>
 410
 411 <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>.
 412 </p>
 413
 414 </div>
 415 <div id="postamble"><p class="author"> Author: Carsten Dominik
 416 <a href="mailto:carsten at orgmode dot org">&lt;carsten at orgmode dot org&gt;</a>
 417 </p>
 418 <p class="date"> Date: 2008/02/07 14:40:24</p>
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