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Org mode

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

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Terminal
  • GNU Emacs
  • Termux
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused
  3.  Support for Themes
  4.  Customizable
  5.  Keyboard focused

Features

  1.  Literate programming
  2.  Task Time Tracking
  3. GNU Emacs icon  Emacs integration
  4.  Plain text file
  5.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  6.  Outliner
  7.  Hierarchical Structure
  8.  Calendar View
  9.  Works Offline
  10.  WYSIWYG Support
  11.  Full-Text Search
  12.  Command line interface
  13.  Dark Mode
  14.  Portable
  15.  Ad-free
  16.  Web-Based
  17.  Publishing
  18.  Export to HTML
  19.  Outline mode
  20.  Search by tags
  21.  Infinite hierarchical depth
  22.  Hierarchical tagging
  23.  Tag based

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Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
traditionalttx
1

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.

Erik MD
0

I like Org-mode as it is easy to setup, and based on a more expressive file format than Markdown.

Guest
0

Org mode does not work on Android. Therefore, it is NOT an alternative to EssentialPIM.

RemovedUser
Replying to @Guest

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.

traditionalttx
Replying to @Guest

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.

krvkir
Replying to @Guest

There are dedicated apps for Org on Android: Orgro and Orgzly. While not as versatile as Emacs Org mode, they are very useful.

Lunatica
1

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.

Guest
0

Very customizable, wholly private with no web dependency.

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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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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Org mode, and it has gotten 142 likes

Org mode was added to AlternativeTo by Whilhelm on and this page was last updated . Org mode is sometimes referred to as Orgmode, Org-mode, Org.