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General Introductions to Org-mode

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• Google Tech Talk about Org-mode, a 45 minute talk given by Carsten
Dominik during a visit at [[http://maps.google.com/%3Fq%3D37.423156,-122.084917%2B(Google%20Inc.)&hl%3Den][Google]].

• Organizing a Scientist's Life and Work, a 45 minute talk given by
Carsten Dominik during a visit at the [[http://www.nf.mpg.de/][Max-Planck Institute for neurological Research Cologne]].

• On FLOSS Weekly Episode 136 (Audio+Video download available)
Randal Schwartz interviews Carsten Dominik about Org-mode.

• Emacs Org-mode presentation at GNU Hackers Meeting 2011 in Paris (in
English), by Bastien Guerry.

• Getting Organized with Emacs Org-mode by Abhijeet Chavan, an article
originally published in the [[http://www.linuxjournal.com/][Linux Journal]].

• by David O'Toole, covering the basics of TODO
lists and the agenda. It has been translated into [[file:orgtutorial_dto-fr.org][French]], [[http://hpcgi1.nifty.com/spen/index.cgi?OrgMode%2fOrgTutorial][Japanese]], [[file:orgtutorial_dto-es.org][Spanish]], [[http://hokmen.chan.googlepages.com/OrgTutorial.en-cn.html][Chinese]], [[http://jmjeong.com/index.php?display=Emacs/OrgMode][Korean]], [[http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/emacs/105300/][Russian]] and [[http://deneb.iszt.hu/~pasztor/orgtutorial/notebook/orgtutorial-hu.html][Hungarian]].

• A 25 minute screencast by Scott Jaderholm, demonstrating the basic
features of Org-mode.

• Outlining Your Notes with Org by Sacha Chua covers outlining,
searching and internal links.

• Using Emacs org-mode for GTD by Charles Cave contains an
introduction into Org-mode, among other things. Charles has also written a more extensive document ([[id:50A0DEB1-4B63-4CC4-840E-313615C4BAE3][see below]]), but here we still link to the earlier version because of its nice overview over Org-mode.

• Emacs Org-mode, video version of a 2-hour talk by Russell Adams at
the [[http://www.hlug.org/][Houston Linux User Group]]. The first half of the first hour is /not/ about Org-mode, but about the Linux command =xargs=.

• Demonstration of Org-mode features by Karl Voit, presented for the
first time at [[http://glt12-programm.linuxtage.at/events/96.de.html][Grazer Linuxtage 2012]].

• Org-mode Workshop by Karl Voit, conducted at [[http://www.TUGraz.at][Graz University of
Technology]] in November 2012 (3x4 hours). It includes a newer version of the feature-show from the entry above.

• by Thorsten Jolitz and François Pinard. An
introduction to the available libraries for using Org-mode's concepts and Org-mode's functionality outside of Org-mode files, e.g. when working with programming-language source-code files.

• In German language: Ordnung ins Chaos mit Org-Mode, an excellent
introduction into Org-mode, by Rainer Koenig, published in the free electronic journal [[http://www.freiesmagazin.de/][Freies Magazin]].

• In French: A general introduction on Org for the "lifehacking"
group, by Olivier Berger.

• In German: Der Emacs Org mode, a comprehensive blog post about Org-mode, by
Hendrik Sünkler.

• In Spanish: of each features, their text format
and their available keys. Don't confuse with [[http://www.davidam.com/docu/orgguide.es.html][Guía Compacta de Org Mode]].

Power users describe their setup

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In the following documents, the authors describe the details of their setup, along with the workflows they use to get organized with Org-mode. While as a beginner you probably should start with only a simple setup, these descriptions will be a fantastic source of inspiration once you start growing your use of Org-mode.
• Using Org-mode as a day planner by John Wiegley shows how to use
Org-mode after the fashion of a pen-and-paper day planner.

• How I use Emacs and Org-mode to implement GTD by Charles Cave
shows one method of doing GTD with org-mode and covers (among other things) categories, effort estimates, tags, scheduling, and custom agenda commands.

• Organize Your Life In Plain Text! by Bernt Hansen describes how to
use Org-mode to track and clock everything you work on.

Tutorials on specific features

Lists

• A short screencast presenting a few features of plain lists, by
Bastien.

Tables, Spreadsheet, Plotting

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• , by Bastien.

• , by
Bastien.

• (), by Bastien.

• Various spreadsheet formulas with explanations how they work
by Karl Voit.

• by Eric Schulte

• by Karl Voit

• Can your editor do this, awesome little video showing how to create
HTML tables from an embedded Org-mode table.

• by
[[http://claimid.com/ejr/][Jason Riedy]].

• Timestamps in Org and Calc, how to calculate and display times in Org-mode by Phil Hollenback

• by Jarmo Hurri

• The following are not tutorials but listed here somehow for
"completeness" of the information sources to be checked too:
• Org manual, section about spreadsheet

• Worg FAQ, section about tables

• Worg hacks, section about tables

• most of the automated Emacs Regression Tests (ERT) for Org tables

Dates and Times

• Using Dates and Times in Emacs Org-mode by Charles Cave.

• Clocking time with Emacs Org by Sacha Chua.

Tags, Properties, and Column View

• Tagging in Org by Sacha Chua.

• What's the use of Column View? by Christian Egli is a short tutorial
about Column View that was sent to [[http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode][emacs-orgmode@gnu.org]].

• by Bastien, with an accompanying screencast.

Remember

• Remember mode tutorial by Charles Cave.

• Remembering to Org and Planner by Sacha Chua.

Capture

• by Sebastian Rose

• Capture mode and date trees in org-mode by Charles Cave.

Agenda and search

• by Matt Lundin

• by Matt Lundin

• by Bastien

• by Bastien

Customization

• by Carsten Dominik.
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Export and Publishing

• , covering the basics of publishing
to HTML, by Sebastian Rose.
• , shows how to create and maintain JavaScript
menus (Phplayermenu) for HTML export, by Sebastian Rose.
• , shows simple image handling in HTML export, by
Sebastian Rose.
• , explains the usage of
the TaskJuggler exporter. There is a Serbo-Croatian translation [[file:org-taskjuggler-scr.org][here]] by Jovana Milutinovich.
• introduces configuration topics for
users of Org Mode < 8.0.
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• Demonstration of Org-mode as a tool for reproducible research by John Kitchin
at SciPy 2013.
• Write your book in Org-mode, and publish it with Leanpub and the ox-leanpub exporter.

Reproducible research

Import

A talk by John Kitchin at SciPy 2013. In his truly amazing talk Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research, John shows off the capabilities of Org mode for reproducible research and authoring. This may be the best demonstration yet on this subject.

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Dependencies between tasks

• Karl Voit on how he is using org-depend.el

Special tasks

Natural Project Planning

• Charles Cave about using Org-mode to implement [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/Natural_Project_Planning.html][Natural Project
Planning]] according to David Allen.

Tracking Habits

• , by Matt Lundin.

Measuring Personal Effectiveness

Using version Control with Your org files

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• , by Ian Barton.
• Use git-sync (disclaimer: my script) if you have a git repo of your own
somewhere in the interclouds.
• Use git-annex for even more decentralized sync and/or heavier workloads.
• Prevent losing collapsed Org lines by mistake by Karl Voit
• A post-commit hook generates a warning on your agenda if more than
xxx lines were removed.

How to use jsMath with org-mode

• , by Darlan Cavalcante Moreira.

Creating a Blog with Jekyll and org

• How to create a with Jekyll.
• Exporting your blog with org-jekyll (a different approach).

Creating Beamer presentations

Creating Non-Beamer presentations

• A for the new (org version 8.x) exporter, by Suvayu Ali.
• Here is a for the old exporter (org v7.x), by Eric S. Fraga.
• Also available is a YouTube video by Shulei Zhu, demonstrating the
whole process.

• A simple by Eric Schulte

Keeping up with your team's tasks

Tracking tasks through a series of meetings

Weaving a budget with Org and ledger

A setup that makes it easy to keep up with the work of several people, packaged as org-secretary.el in contrib. This tutorial describes a workflow for running a series of meetings, for example of a commission or any other group, and for keeping track of the groups tasks. .

describes how to use Org and ledger to manage your budget.

Managing your web bookmarks

• Simple method by Karl Voit

Contact management

• Per-contact FROM-email Addresses for Users Of mutt and org-contacts.el by Karl Voit
• Although he is using mutt as email software, the method can be
easily adapted for many other email tools.

Contributing your package through Melpa + GitHub

Want to contribute ? GitHub + MELPA + Worg is a popular way to publish your contribution.

Personal Setup

See also Powerusers describe their setup

• Sacha Chua about A day in a life with Org and about the basics of
[[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/28/emacs-getting-things-done-with-org-basic/][Getting Things Done with Org]]

• David O'Toole explains his setup in this post.

• This blog post shows a very simple and clear GTD setup.

• Manuel Hermenegildo describes his [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/6701/focus%3D6732][Setup for collaborative work
using Org]].

• Jan Böcker describes his approach to general reference filing with
org-mode.

Screencasts

See the page for a complete list of Org-mode screencasts.

Features waiting for tutorials

• The Clock Table
• Sparse Trees
• Hyperlinks
• Using TODO states
• Using TAGS
• Embedded LaTeX
• Using orgtbl-mode in LaTeX
• Capture

Org-related pages by Tutorial authors

Here are the pages of a number of people that write for or about Org-mode:

• John Wiegley

• Charles Cave

• Sacha Chua

• Karl Voit