2 #+TITLE: Org-Mode Homepage
4 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
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7 * Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes and Project Planning
9 #+HTML: <BASE href="http://orgmode.org/index.html">
11 Org-mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and doing
12 project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system.
14 Org-mode develops organizational tasks around NOTES files that contain
15 information about projects as plain text. Org-mode is implemented on
16 top of outline-mode, which makes it possible to keep the content of
17 large files well structured. Visibility cycling and structure editing
18 help to work with the tree. Tables are easily created with a built-in
19 table editor. Org-mode supports ToDo items, deadlines, time stamps,
20 and scheduling. It dynamically compiles entries into an agenda.
21 Plain text URL-like links connect to websites, emails, Usenet
22 messages, BBDB entries, and any files related to the projects. For
23 printing and sharing of notes, an Org-mode file can be exported as a
24 structured ASCII file, HTML, and LaTeX.
26 * Current Version (6.04b) and Compatibility
28 The current version is 6.04b. To see what has changed in recent
29 releases, check this [[file:Changes.html][list of user-visible changes]]. These descriptions
30 are extensive, to avoid that people will be printing the manual after
31 each incremental release. If you have an older version of the manual,
32 just check the release notes and you will be up-to-date.
34 This package works on Emacs 23 and 22, and (with minor restrictions)
35 on Emacs 21 and XEmacs 21 (where you must also use
36 /xemacs/noutline.el/ shipped with Org-mode). The Emacs 22.2 release
37 ships with Org-mode version 4.67d. The latest CVS emacs trunk usually
38 contains a fairly recent version, but may lag a bit behind the website
45 Download as [[file:org-6.04b.zip][zip file]] or [[file:org-6.04b.tar.gz][gzipped tar archive]]. These archives contain
46 both the Lisp file org.el and the documentation in PDF and (TeX)Info
47 formats. A shell script to simplify upgrading to the newest release
48 has been posted [[http://www.philfam.co.uk/pete/GTD/org-mode/update-org.sh][here]].
50 **** Get the development version
52 You can check out the latest Org development version by using git.
53 More information on this page: http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode.git
56 ** Manual and Reference card
57 - Read the documentation [[file:manual/index.html][online]]. This is a version consisting of many
58 small files, to save bandwidth. If you really need it, you can also
59 have the entire manual in a [[file:org.html][single monolithic file]].
60 - Download the documentation in other formats: [[file:org.pdf][PDF]], [[file:org][Info]], or [[file:org.texi][TeXInfo]].
61 - Download the [[file:orgcard.pdf][Refcard]] for org-mode, and Kyle Sherman hast created a
62 [[file:orgcard.txt][text version]] of the reference card
63 - There is also a [[http://hpcgi1.nifty.com/spen/index.cgi?OrgMode%2fManual][Japanese translation]] of the manual (version 4.60),
64 produced by Takeshi Okano.
65 - The [[file:faq.org][FAQ]] is not very up-to-date, but may still answer some of your
66 questions. Please have a look before posting to emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
72 There is a mailing list for discussion about org-mode.
74 - Subscribe to it at [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode][this webpage]].
75 - Directly [[mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org][send mail to it]]. If you are not subscribed, a moderator
76 will look at the message before passing it through to the
77 list. If that has happened once, future messages from your email
78 address will get through immediately, even if you remain
80 - Read the list on [[http://www.gmane.org][Gmane]] through a [[http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode][web interface]] or with a
81 [[news://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode][newsreader]].
84 <li><form method="get" action="http://search.gmane.org/">
85 <input type="text" name="query">
86 <input type="hidden" name="group" value="gmane.emacs.orgmode">
87 <input type="submit" value="Search gmane.emacs.orgmode">
91 ** Worg - user-driven knowledge-base about org-mode
93 [[http://orgmode.org/worg/][Worg]], created by [[http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/][Bastien Guerry]], is a setup to allow users to jointly
94 edit a number of Org-mode files containing documentation about
95 Org-mode. This is something like a wiki, but with the advantage that
96 you do not have to be online to modify a file. If you'd like to
97 contribute your own setup, screenshots, tutorials etc, please go to
98 [[http://orgmode.org/worg/][the Worg page]], and start from there.
102 [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/index.php][Tutorials and screencasts]] are maintained by the [[http://orgmode.org/worg][Worg project]].
106 In November 2007, Charles Cave organized a survey among Org-mode
107 users. The answers given in this survey can be found [[file:survey.html][here]].
109 ** Org-mode, GTD and other task management systems
110 Org-mode is flexible enough to implement many different ways of
111 organizing your projects. A frequently discusses scheme is [[http://www.davidco.com/][David
112 Allen's]] strategy for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTD][Getting Things Done]]. But it is clearly not
113 the only way to us Org-mode for planning. Here are a couple of
114 links related to this topic.
116 - [[http://johnwiegley.com][John Wiegley]] has written an excellent document describing his
117 way of using Org-mode as a [[http://johnwiegley.com/org.mode.day.planner.html][day planner]]. See also some later
118 messages for enhancements of his setup:
119 [[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/2963][emacs-orgmode-2962]], [[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/3629][emacs-orgmode-3629]]
121 - [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/charles57/Creative/][Charles Cave]] has written an [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.html][article/tutorial]] about the basic
122 elements of GTD and how he implements them in Org-mode. There
123 is also a [[http://www.legito.net/worg/org-tutorials/orgtutorial_dto-fr.php][french translation]] of this document.
125 - There have been several threads on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org related
126 to GTD, the most important ones are:
128 + [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/683][Another GTD question]], which contains a discussion about basic
129 GTD aspects. It also contains this
130 + [[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/715][Post by Carsten]] summarizing several options for implementing
132 + [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/523][GTD, Projects and Next Actions in org-mode]] is a thread where
133 several people describe their personal setup is
134 + The [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4915][SOMEDAY/MAYBE vs. low priorities]] thread contains a
135 discussion about priorities that is quite instructive.
136 + Here is a [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4832/focus%3D4854][very instructive post]] by Pete Phillips explaining
137 why David Allens book is where you should start to learn GTD,
138 and that the Internet and Org-mode only come into the game
139 later, when thinking about the implementation. And since
140 doing GTD the right way will give you lots of free time, don't
141 forget to listen to [[http://www.detox-jazz.co.uk/][Pete's music]]!
143 - Also on the web you can find information about how people are
144 setting up Org-mode to fit their habits. A few examples:
146 + This [[http://www.brool.com/?p=82][blog post]] shows a very simple and clear GTD setup.
150 - [[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pz215/][Piotr Zielinski]] wrote [[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pz215/files/org-mouse.el][org-mouse.el]] which is now distributed with
151 Org-mode. It implements great mouse support for many functions in
154 - [[http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/][David O'Toole]] is the author of [[http://dto.freeshell.org/e/org-publish.el][org-publish.el]]. While this is
155 now part of the Org-mode distribution, you might find the newest
156 bug fixes and developments at his [[http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/OrgMode.html][Org-mode page]], along with
157 several other projects like /org-blog.el/ and
158 /org-publish-escript.el/.
160 - [[http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/][Bastien Guerry]] has been really prolific in writing interesting
161 add-ons, all available at his [[http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/bastien-org-mode.html][org-mode page]]:
162 + a package for using Org-mode as the basis for blogging
163 + a LaTeX exporter that is now distributed together with
165 + a special table-of-contents buffer that simplifies navigation
166 + a registry to find locations that link a specific document.
168 - George C.F. Greve wrote [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/org-mairix.el][org-mairix.el]] to add links that trigger a
173 I know about the following attempts to translate from and to
178 - [[http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/u/org2rem.el][From Org-mode to remind]] by [[http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/][Bastien Guerry]].
180 - From Org-mode to Freemind by Marco Vezzoli, this is available in
181 the contrib directory of the distribution.
185 - [[http://www.olafdietsche.de/palm/palm2orgmode.pl][From Palm TODO database to Orgmode]]. This Translator was
186 written by [[http://www.olafdietsche.de/][Olaf Dietsche]].
188 - From [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/5073][Remind to Org]] by Detlef Steuer.
192 Unfortunately nothing so far.
194 ** Alternative distributions
196 - Mark A. Hershberger has made some [[https://launchpad.net/~hexmode/+archive][Ubuntu packages]] for org-mode.
198 ** Contributing to Org-mode
200 You can always contribute with ideas and bug reports on the mailing
201 list. If you want to contribute a patch, code snippets, or a full
202 add-on, this is very welcome too! However, I can only make it an
203 official part of Org-mode if you have signed the papers with the
204 Free Software Foundation. Org-mode is distributed as part of Emacs
205 and must therefore adhere to strict rules about the copyright of
206 all included material. If this is what you want to do, [[file:request-assign-future.txt][here]] is the
207 form that you have to fill in and send to the FSF. After you
208 received the final copy with signatures, please scan it and send
209 the scan to the maintainer.
211 ** Future Development
213 Org-mode is still developing fast. The best way to stay up-to-date
214 is to join the mailing list where the changes are developed and
217 Here is a loose [[file:todo.org][list of ideas]] that are still to be processed
218 somehow, when I get to it...
222 [[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]].