2 This is the README file for Planner.
7 Planner is an organizer and day planner for Emacs. It helps you keep
8 track of your pending and completed tasks, daily schedule, dates to
9 remember, notes and inspirations. It is a powerful tool not only for
10 managing your time and productivity, but also for keeping within easy
11 keystroke reach all of the information you need to be productive. It
12 can even publish reports charting your work for your personal web
13 page, your conscience, or your soon-to-be-impressed boss.
15 In fact, because it uses as its building blocks simple plain-text
16 files, it is an incredibly modular and flexible tool capable of
17 shaping and handling your personal information in ways whose variety
18 is limited only by your imagination. Because of this, Planner has a
19 very active and generous community who regularly share their
20 innovations with each other. Many of these modules and extensions are
26 Planner is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
27 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
28 Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
31 Planner is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
32 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
33 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
36 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
37 along with Planner; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
38 Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
44 The directory structure is as follows.
46 top level :: Planner source code and the documentation
49 contrib :: Files that are not a part of Planner proper, but are useful
50 enough to be bundled with Planner.
52 scripts :: Scripts that are used when compiling Planner.
60 This is an optional step, since Emacs Lisp source code does not
61 necessarily have to be byte-compiled. It will yield a speed increase,
64 A working copy of Emacs or XEmacs is needed in order to compile
65 Planner. By default, the program that is installed with the name
68 You will also need to have Emacs Muse installed. See
69 http://www.plannerlove.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.DownloadingPlanner
70 for current information on which release of Muse to get,
72 If Muse is not present in the `~/elisp/muse' directory on your system,
73 you will have to change the line that mentions Muse in
74 `scripts/planner-build.el' to something like the following, replacing
75 PATH with the path to Muse.
77 (add-to-list 'load-path "PATH/lisp")
79 If you want to use the `xemacs' binary to perform the compilation, you
80 would need to edit `Makefile.defs' in the top-level directory as
81 follows. You can put either a full path to an Emacs or XEmacs binary
82 or just the command name, as long as it is in the PATH.
85 SITEFLAG = -no-site-file
87 In order for Planner to be byte-compiled properly, you will need to
88 specify the paths to Muse and other external software programs in
89 `scripts/planner-build.el'. If a file fails to be byte-compiled, only
90 its source will be installed.
92 Running `make' should compile the Planner source files in the `lisp'
98 Planner may be installed into your file hierarchy by doing the
101 Edit the `Makefile.defs' file so that ELISPDIR points to where you
102 want the source and compiled Planner files to be installed and INFODIR
103 indicates where to put the Planner manual. Of course, you will want
104 to edit EMACS and SITEFLAG as shown in the Compilation section if you
107 If you are installing Planner on a Debian system, you might want to
108 change the value of INSTALLINFO as specified in `Makefile.defs'.
110 If you wish to install Planner to different locations than the
111 defaults specify, edit `Makefile.defs' accordingly.
113 Run `make' as a normal user.
115 Run `make install' as the root user if you have chosen installation
116 locations that require this.
121 Two things need to happen in order for Planner to be usable with your
122 version of Emacs or XEmacs.
124 1. The location of the Planner directory needs to be added to the load
125 path so that your variant of Emacs can find it.
127 2. You need to load whichever Planner files you wish to make use of.
129 A quick example that accomplishes both of these follows.
131 ;; Add this to your .emacs or .xemacs/init.el file.
132 (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/planner")
138 The Planner manual may be generated by running `make doc'.
140 It will produce two files: an Info file called `planner-el.info' and
141 an HTML document called `planner-el.html'.
143 This manual is also available online in several forms.
145 - PDF: http://www.mwolson.org/static/doc/planner.pdf
146 - HTML (single file): http://www.mwolson.org/static/doc/planner.html
147 - HTML (multiple files): http://www.mwolson.org/static/doc/planner/
149 Further Documentation
150 =====================
152 Planner has an official website at http://www.plannerlove.com/. It is
153 a collaborative wiki.
155 Bugs may be reported using the Planner Bug-Tracker at
156 https://gna.org/bugs/?group=planner-el.
158 A mailing list for Planner and some related software exists; consult
159 http://www.plannerlove.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Community for
160 details on joining it or viewing its contents.