Org mode
Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.
- Free • Open Source
- Task Management
- Note-taking
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- GNU Emacs
...
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.
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.
Show full description ▾
Features Vote on or suggest new features
- Customizable
- Task time tracking
- Literate programming
- Todo List
- Emacs integration
- Plain text file
- Outliner
- Web-Based
- Privacy focused
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Lightweight
- Outline mode
- Notetaking
- Hierarchical structure
- Search by tags
- Infinite hierarchical depth
- Task Management
- Command line interface
- Hierarchical tagging
- Publishing
Comments and Reviews Post a comment / review all • positive • negative relevance • date
Categories
Office & Productivity • OS & Utilities • Photos & GraphicsTags
- getting-things-done
- tasks-manager
- organizer
- project-planning
Lists containing Org mode
Productivity • Linux Apps for Writers • Notes • outlinersOrg mode
Summary
Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Org mode, and it has gotten 114 likes
- Developed by Carsten Dominik
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 5
- 259 alternatives listed
Popular alternatives
View allOrg mode was added to AlternativeTo by Whilhelm on Nov 23, 2010 and this page was last updated Sep 27, 2021. Org mode is sometimes referred to as Orgmode, Org-mode, Org.
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.
Very customizable, wholly private with no web dependency.
Org mode does not work on Android. Therefore, it is NOT an alternative to EssentialPIM.