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Introduction to Org-Mode and Worg

Org-mode is a powerful system for organizing your complex life with simple plain-text files. It seamlessly integrates all your notes, mindmaps, TODO lists, calendar, day planner, and project schedules into a single system that can be easily searched (e.g. by grep), encrypted (e.g. by GnuPG), backed up and synced (e.g. by Dropbox), imported/exported, and (e.g. on an iPhone or Android smartphone). It can even be used for authoring web pages and documents.

Check out some in action. See about Org-mode, and read a few !

Org-mode is distributed as part of the popular Emacs text editor and runs wherever Emacs runs, including on GNU-Linux, Windows, and Mac. Written by Carsten Dominik, it is currently maintained by Bastien Guerry and used by many helpful people who, like you, are desperate to get and stay organized.

The page you're reading is part of Worg, a section of the Org-mode web site that is written by a volunteer community of Org-mode fans. It includes tutorials, ideas, code snippets, etc., shared to make your introduction and customization of Org-mode as easy as possible. Worg is maintained by Matthew Lundin, a group of , and maybe .

Org-Mode Resources

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Learn Org-Mode

• Org-mode Main Page : The official page for Org-mode
• : Your best starting point
• : An explanation of org-mode terminology
• Org-mode Manual : Extensive and complete documentation
• Org-mode Guide : Not extensive, but complete documentation
• Spanish translation of the orgguide (repository - html)
• French translation of the orgguide (repository)
• : Beginner's customization guide, examples, survey,
and a list of all hooks
• : check the , pdf and ASCII versions.
• French translation of the orgcard ( - )
• : Preliminary documentation for the new exporter.

Library of Babel

A collection of generally useful code blocks available as a or .org file.

Get Help with Org-Mode

• : Check here before writing to the mailing list
• : For unanswered questions, suggestions, and
discussion
• Org-mode IRC Channel : For live Q&A, go to #org-mode on Freenode

Use Org-Mode Effectively

• Use Org-mode as a (perfect for GTD and the
Pomodoro Technique)
• Author (see )
• Integrate
• Synchronize org-mode files easily with git-sync, a , or

Dive Deeper into Org-Mode

• : reference documentation for developers
• : Read a variety of articles from introductions to
specific customizations
• : Copy code snippets from other users
• : Learn about Literate programming within Org-mode
• Tools
• : Import into and export out of Org-mode
• : Parse and analyze .org files
• : Dependencies on external packages for advanced
functionality [Work in progress]
• : Whitepapers and books about Org-mode

Check Out Third-Party Contributions

• , including extensive documentation
• Repository of contributed code:
• the contrib/ directory of the Org-mode package
• the code directory of Worg
• org-info-js by Sebastian Rose: great javascript
tool to navigate through a HTML page (as exported by Org) the way you navigate through an Org or an info manual, i.e. supporting folding, previous/next buttons, etc.
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Join the Community

• Check out the list of and a few
[[file:org-people.org][profiles of the Org-mode Community]] (with photos ☺)
• Meet other users in the flesh at

Help out

• Improve Worg by sharing your knowledge about Org-mode: see Maintenance of Worg.
• Improve Org-mode:
• Send bug reports after checking the
• Help
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Maintenance of Worg

• Intro
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• Tasks
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• Howtos
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• Miscellaneous
• Recent changes to Worg
• Org-mode source documents of all Worg pages

Latest changes to the Worg git repository

Git'r done!

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