Org-Mode: Limitless Plain Text

Emacs Org-Mode is a lot of things; but as the Org-Mode website put it:

Org-mode is for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system.

Personally, Org-Mode is where I ended up after trying all sorts of desktop and online applications, so I thought I’d share my experience and hope someone else find it useful. The only thing you need to keep in mind while exploring Org-Mode is that, despite how comprehensive and far-reaching it may look, you can start by using only the subset of features (or even the single one) that does what you want. Incremental, on-demand learning is your friend.

These slides were created using org-mode.

http://kingston.motd.org/2011/10/05/varlogmeeting-7/

Transcript

1. Org-Mode: Limitless Plain Text Ahmad Khayyat Kingston Linux Users Group September 2011
2. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Outline 1 Landscape 2 Example 3 Structure 4 Formatting 5 Organization 6 Exporting
3. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting The Competition Outliners Word processors Note takers Calendars To-Do managers Project planners Personal organizers Spreadsheats
4. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting The Platform: Emacs Commands 1 Key binding Simple keys Modifiers: C, M, S, C-M, C-S, M-S, C-M-S Compound keys C-c: Mode-specific commands C-x: File, buffer, and window commands C-h: Help commands C-u: Command prefix 2 Long name: M-x long-command Files Files, buffers, windows, and frames Modes: 1 major mode, 0+ minor modes
5. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Org-Mode An Emacs major mode Rich Structured Meta data Friendly markup Plain text Smart editor, portable content Machine and human readable Program- and Platform-neutral Version control Gradual development of the perfect organizer
6. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Outline 1 Landscape 2 Example 3 Structure 4 Formatting 5 Organization 6 Exporting
7. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Kingston Linux Users Group Online presence Website, mailing list, calendar Posts Meetings 2011-04-06 Wed: First meeting . . . News To-Do TODO Post first meeting summary TODO Post second meeting announcement Meetings (table)
8. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Outline 1 Landscape 2 Example 3 Structure 4 Formatting 5 Organization 6 Exporting
9. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Outlining Headings *, **, *** Clean view #+STARTUP: indent Visibility cycling TAB, S-TAB Navigation C-c C-{u,n,p,f,b,j} Editing structure M-<arrow>, M-S-<arrow> Filtering C-c /
10. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Lists Ordered list 1., 1) Unordered list -, +, * Description list - Term :: Checkboxes - [ ], - [X]
11. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Outline 1 Landscape 2 Example 3 Structure 4 Formatting 5 Organization 6 Exporting
12. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Text Bold *Bold* Italic /Italic/ Underlined _Underlined_ code =code= Strike-through +Strike-through+
13. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Links http://www.google.com [[http://www.google.com]] Google [[http://www.google.com][Google]]
14. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Tables | Header 1 | Header 2 | | First | Row | | Second | Row |
15. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Outline 1 Landscape 2 Example 3 Structure 4 Formatting 5 Organization 6 Exporting
16. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Tags Markup :tag: Shortcut C-c Predefined tags #+TAGS: home(h) work(w) Filter C- \
17. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting To-Do Markup TODO description Shortcut C-t States #+TODO: TODO(t) | DONE(d) Filter C-/
18. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Outline 1 Landscape 2 Example 3 Structure 4 Formatting 5 Organization 6 Exporting
19. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting Export Formats PDF (L A TEX) C-c C-e p HTML C-c C-e h DocBook C-c C-e D Export options Table of contents CSS style sheets Meta data . . .
20. Landscape Example Structure Formatting Organization Exporting References Emacs Tutorial http://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/tcl-course/emacs- tutorial.html Org-Mode Tutorial http://orgmode.org/worg/org- tutorials/orgtutorial_dto.html Org-Mode Guide http://orgmode.org/guide/ Org-Mode Manual http://orgmode.org/manual/