org/org-mode.org

org-mode

how did I end up here?

• watched a talk on why a vim'er switched to Emacs mentioning org-mode
• after reading org-mode mentioned as a gateway drug to Emacs
• watched a talk of the org-mode author Carsten Dominik

motivations

• Plain text files are the only portable document format.
• Avoid separate tools for note taking and tasks.

what is it today

Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.

org

• yet another markup language quite close to Markdown

* This Is A Heading
** This Is A Sub-Heading
*** And A Sub-Sub-Heading

Paragraphs are separated by at least one empty line.

*bold* /italic/ _underlined_ +strikethrough+ =monospaced=
[[http://Karl-Voit.at][Link description]]
http://Karl-Voit.at → link without description

- list item
- another item
  - sub-item
    1. also enumerated
    2. if you like
- [ ] yet to be done
- [X] item which is done

: Simple pre-formatted text such as for source code.
: This also respects the line breaks. *bold* is not bold here.

mode

emacs mode

Demo