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<h1 class="title">Org-Mode Homepage</h1>
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<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#sec-1">Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes and Project Planning</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-2">Current Version (5.22a) and Compatibility</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-3">Downloads</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-4">Documentation</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#sec-5">Manual and Reference card</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#sec-6">Links</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#sec-7">Mailing list</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-8">Worg - user-driven knowledge-base about org-mode</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-9">Tutorials</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-10">Survey</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-11">Org-mode, GTD and other task management systems </a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-12">Add-Ons</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-13">Translators</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-17">Alternative distributions</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-18">Contributing to Org-mode</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-19">Future Development</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#sec-20">Related Software</a></li>
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<h2 id="sec-1">Org - an Emacs Mode for Notes and Project Planning</h2>


<BASE href="http://orgmode.org/index.html">

<p>
Org-mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and doing
project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system.
</p>
<p>
Org-mode develops organizational tasks around NOTES files that contain
information about projects as plain text.  Org-mode is implemented on
top of outline-mode, which makes it possible to keep the content of
large files well structured.  Visibility cycling and structure editing
help to work with the tree.  Tables are easily created with a built-in
table editor.  Org-mode supports ToDo items, deadlines, time stamps,
and scheduling.  It dynamically compiles entries into an agenda.
Plain text URL-like links connect to websites, emails, Usenet
messages, BBDB entries, and any files related to the projects.  For
printing and sharing of notes, an Org-mode file can be exported as a
structured ASCII file, HTML, and LaTeX.
</p>
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<div class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-2">Current Version (5.22a) and Compatibility</h2>


<p>
The current version is 5.22a.  To see what has changed in recent
releases, check this <a href="Changes.html">list of user-visible changes</a>.  These descriptions
are extensive, to avoid that people will be printing the manual after
each incremental release.  If you have an older version of the manual,
just check the release notes and you will be up-to-date.
</p>
<p>
This package works on Emacs 22, and (with minor restrictions) on Emacs
21 and XEmacs 21 (where you must also use <i>noutline.el</i> shipped with
Org-mode).  The Emacs 22.1 release ships with Org-mode version 4.67c.
The latest CVS emacs trunk usually contains a fairly recent version,
but may lag a bit behind the website release.
</p>
</div>

<div class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-3">Downloads</h2>


<ul>
<li>Distribution<br/>
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
both the Lisp file org.el and the documentation in PDF and (TeX)Info
formats.  A shell script to simplify upgrading to the newest release
has been posted <a href="http://www.philfam.co.uk/pete/GTD/org-mode/update-org.sh">here</a>.

</li>
</ul>
</div>

<div class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-4">Documentation</h2>


<div class="outline-3">
<h3 id="sec-5">Manual and Reference card</h3>

<ul>
<li>
Read the documentation <a href="manual/index.html">online</a>.  This is a version consisting of many
small files, to save bandwidth.  If you really need it, you can also
have the entire manual in a <a href="org.html">single monolithic file</a>.
</li>
<li>
Download the documentation in other formats: <a href="org.pdf">PDF</a>, <a href="org">Info</a>, or <a href="org.texi">TeXInfo</a>.
</li>
<li>
Download the <a href="orgcard.pdf">Refcard</a> for org-mode, and Kyle Sherman hast created a
<a href="orgcard.txt">text version</a> of the reference card
</li>
<li>
There is also a <a href="http://hpcgi1.nifty.com/spen/index.cgi?OrgMode%2fManual">Japanese translation</a> of the manual (version 4.60),
produced by Takeshi Okano.
</li>
<li>
The <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a> is not very up-to-date, but may still answer some of your
questions.  Please have a look before posting to emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.

</li>
</ul></div>
</div>

<div class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-6">Links</h2>


<div class="outline-3">
<h3 id="sec-7">Mailing list</h3>


<p>
There is a mailing list for discussion about org-mode.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Subscribe to it at <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode">this webpage</a>.
</li>
<li>
Directly <a href="mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org">send mail to it</a>.  If you are not subscribed, a moderator
will look at the message before passing it through to the
list.  If that has happened once, future messages from your email
address will get through immediately, even if you remain
unsubscribed.
</li>
<li>
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
<a href="news://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode">newsreader</a>.
<li><form method="get" action="http://search.gmane.org/">
<input type="text" name="query">
<input type="hidden" name="group" value="gmane.emacs.orgmode">
<input type="submit" value="Search gmane.emacs.orgmode">
</form>

</li>
</ul></div>

<div class="outline-3">
<h3 id="sec-8">Worg - user-driven knowledge-base about org-mode</h3>


<p>
<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
edit a number of Org-mode files containing documentation about
Org-mode.  This is something like a wiki.  If you'd like to contribute
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.
</p>
</div>

<div class="outline-3">
<h3 id="sec-9">Tutorials</h3>


<p>
<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>.
</p>
</div>

<div class="outline-3">
<h3 id="sec-10">Survey</h3>


<p>
In November 2007, Charles Cave organized a survey among Org-mode
users.  The answers given in this survey can be found <a href="survey.html">here</a>.
</p>
</div>

<div class="outline-3">
<h3 id="sec-11">Org-mode, GTD and other task management systems </h3>

<p>Org-mode is flexible enough to implement many different ways of
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
the only way to us Org-mode for planning.  Here are a couple of
links related to this topic.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://johnwiegley.com">John Wiegley</a> has written an excellent document describing his
way of using Org-mode as a <a href="http://johnwiegley.com/org.mode.day.planner.html">day planner</a>. See also some later
messages for enhancements of his setup:
<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>

</li>
<li>
<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
elements of GTD and how he implements them in Org-mode.  There
is also a <a href="http://129.199.80.1/~guerry/org-gtd.html">french translation</a> of this document.

</li>
<li>
There have been several threads on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org related
to GTD, the most important ones are:

<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/683">Another GTD question</a>, which contains a discussion about basic
GTD aspects.  It also contains this
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/715">Post by Carsten</a> summarizing several options for implementing
GTD in org-mode.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/523">GTD, Projects and Next Actions in org-mode</a> is a thread where
several people describe their personal setup is 
</li>
<li>
The <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4915">SOMEDAY/MAYBE vs. low priorities</a> thread contains a
discussion about priorities that is quite instructive.
</li>
<li>
Here is a <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4832/focus%3D4854">very instructive post</a> by Pete Phillips explaining
why David Allens book is where you should start to learn GTD,
and that the Internet and Org-mode only come into the game
later, when thinking about the implementation.  And since
doing GTD the right way will give you lots of free time, don't
forget to listen to <a href="http://www.detox-jazz.co.uk/">Pete's music</a>!

</li>
</ul></li>
<li>
Also on the web you can find information about how people are
setting up Org-mode to fit their habits.  A few examples:

<ul>
<li>
This <a href="http://www.brool.com/?p=82">blog post</a> shows a very simple and clear GTD setup.

</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></div>

<div class="outline-3">
<h3 id="sec-12">Add-Ons</h3>


<ul>
<li>
<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
Org-mode. It implements great mouse support for many functions in
org-mode.

</li>
<li>
<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
now part of the Org-mode distribution, you might find the newest
bug fixes and developments at his <a href="http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/OrgMode.html">Org-mode page</a>, along with
several other projects like <i>org-blog.el</i> and
<i>org-publish-escript.el</i>.

</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/">Bastien Guerry</a> has been really prolific in writing interesting
add-ons, all available at his <a href="http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/bastien-org-mode.html">org-mode page</a>:
<ul>
<li>
a package for using Org-mode as the basis for blogging
</li>
<li>
a LaTeX exporter that is now distributed together with
org-mode
</li>
<li>
a special table-of-contents buffer that simplifies navigation
</li>
<li>
a registry to find locations that link a specific document.

</li>
</ul></li>
<li>
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
mairix search.

</li>
</ul></div>

<div class="outline-3">
<h3 id="sec-13">Translators</h3>


<p>
I know about the following attempts to translate from and to
Org-mode files:
</p>

<div class="outline-4">
<h4 id="sec-14">Org-mode to XXX</h4>


<ul>
<li>
<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>.

</li>
<li>
<a href="org-export-freemind-0.1.0.tar.gz">From Org-mode to Freemind</a> by Marco Vezzoli.

</li>
</ul></div>

<div class="outline-4">
<h4 id="sec-15">XXX to Org-mode</h4>


<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.olafdietsche.de/palm/palm2orgmode.pl">From Palm TODO database to Orgmode</a>.  This Translator was
written by <a href="http://www.olafdietsche.de/">Olaf Dietsche</a>.

</li>
<li>
From <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/5073">Remind to Org</a> by Detlef Steuer.

</li>
</ul></div>

<div class="outline-4">
<h4 id="sec-16">Bi-directional</h4>


<p>
Unfortunately nothing so far.
</p>
</div>
</div>

<div class="outline-3">
<h3 id="sec-17">Alternative distributions</h3>


<ul>
<li>
Mark A. Hershberger has made some <a href="https://launchpad.net/~hexmode/+archive">Ubuntu packages</a> for org-mode.

</li>
</ul></div>

<div class="outline-3">
<h3 id="sec-18">Contributing to Org-mode</h3>


<p>
You can always contribute with ideas and bug reports on the mailing
list.  If you want to contribute a patch, code snippets, or a full
add-on, this is very welcome too!  However, I can only make it an
official part of Org-mode if you have signed the papers with the
Free Software Foundation.  Org-mode is distributed as part of Emacs
and must therefore adhere to strict rules about the copyright of
all included material.  If this is what you want to do, <a href="request-assign-future.txt">here</a> is the
form that you have to fill in and send to the FSF.  After you
received the final copy with signatures, please scan it and send
the scan to the maintainer.
</p>
</div>

<div class="outline-3">
<h3 id="sec-19">Future Development</h3>


<p>
Org-mode is still developing fast.  The best way to stay up-to-date
is to join the mailing list where the changes are developed and
discusssed.
</p>
<p>
Here is a loose <a href="todo.html">list of ideas</a> that are still to be processed
somehow, when I get to it&hellip;
</p>
</div>
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<div class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-20">Related Software</h2>

<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>.
</p>

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<div id="postamble"><p class="author"> Author: Carsten Dominik
<a href="mailto:carsten at orgmode dot org">&lt;carsten at orgmode dot org&gt;</a>
</p>
<p class="date"> Date: 2008/02/19 09:14:54</p>
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