Org mode
Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- GNU Emacs
- Termux
- Terminal
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
- Customizable
- Keyboard focused
Features
- Literate programming
- Task Time Tracking
Emacs integration- Plain text file
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Outliner
- Hierarchical Structure
- Calendar View
- Works Offline
- WYSIWYG Support
- Full-Text Search
- Command line interface
- Dark Mode
- Portable
- Ad-free
- Web-Based
- Export to HTML
- Outline mode
- Search by tags
- Infinite hierarchical depth
- Hierarchical tagging
- Publishing
- Tag based
Tags
- getting-things-done
- organizer
- project-planning
Org mode News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
nuvintaillc added Org mode as alternative to FlowCoach AI
AhuracMusic added Org mode as alternative to Microsoft Planner- traditionalttx reviewed Org mode
Its learning curve is tremendous (emacs along with org mode), but once you have get over it, org-mode might be the best PIM, and it is a perfect combination of note-taking and personal task management.
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POX added Org mode as alternative to Progressive
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What is Org mode?
Org-mode is for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system.
Org 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 supports TODO items, deadlines, timestamps, and scheduling. It dynamically compiles entries into an agenda that utilizes and smoothly integrates much of the Emacs calendar and diary. Plain text URL-like links connect to websites, emails, Usenet messages, BBDB entries, and any files related to the projects. For printing and sharing notes, an Org file can be exported as a structured ASCII file, as HTML, or (TODO and agenda items only) as an iCalendar file. It can also serve as a publishing tool for a set of linked web pages.
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Org mode information
Developed by
Carsten Dominik Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Alternatives
277 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
there's no comparison: org-mode is the best for note-taking, personal task management, literate programming, etc. there's a lot of Emacs packages for adding functionality to org-mode, like creating blogs with hugo/ox-hugo, doing your math and previewing it with latex integration, researching with org-roam, and the list goes on.
edit: currently the most problematic thing with org-mode is mobile support. On Android there's orgzly, but it's essentially only useful for task management. Now there's organice, which is a web app that's trying to solve this so you can edit org-mode files through your web browser either mobile or desktop.
Its learning curve is tremendous (emacs along with org mode), but once you have get over it, org-mode might be the best PIM, and it is a perfect combination of note-taking and personal task management.
I like Org-mode as it is easy to setup, and based on a more expressive file format than Markdown.
Org mode does not work on Android. Therefore, it is NOT an alternative to EssentialPIM.
It's possible to run Emacs on Android therefore Org Mode works on Android. Android is really just a Linux distribution that people treat as a separate operating system.
I have actually used it on Termux for four years, and I find such usage as the best approach for me. Although it does require some extra work on the .emacs file to make it look nice on the phone, and a nice virtual keyboard is required.
Very customizable, wholly private with no web dependency.