Emacs Org-mode - a system for note-taking and project planning

Google Tech Talks
July 15, 2008

ABSTRACT

Org-mode is a large Emacs sub-systems that has been integrated into
Emacs with the version 22.1 release. From it original intend,
Org-mode is a system for structured note-taking and project planning.
It uses strictly plain text files, making it a truly portable,
system-independent solution. The project-planning features are
implemented using a fairly simple outlining paradigm, upon which
meta-data concepts like due dates, priorities, TODO states and tags
are overlayed in a non-intrusive way. Besides outlining the system
and its basic concepts, I will give background information into the
history of Org-mode and discuss the properties of such an evolved
system compared to a top-down designed one. Finally, I will also
briefly touch on some technical aspects that may be interesting for
Emacs wizards and developers.


Speaker: Carsten Dominik

Category:

Science & Technology

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• GTD
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• Emacs

[yongbin99]

Bravo! Org-mode is a great piece of emacs hackering. It's very easy to learn incrementally - I started using it effectively within the first hour of discovering it, and I will make heavy use of some of the features presented in this video - particularly the integration with calc.

My compliments and thanks to Professor Dominik for his work, and to Google for making this and other TechTalks available to the public.

[mjclarthur]

GTD should be part of the title for this for those searching for GTD related things

[zhengyi13]

@sleepersix: TV Raman wrote a little thing called emacspeak, which hooks a speech synth into emacs such that every aspect of the interface can be spoken aloud by the computer. In so far as you can do *anything* you might want to do with a computer inside of emacs... well, he can write code, email, chat, play in the shell, whatever -- and emacs will read it all aloud to him, very, very quickly.

[mjkolu]

08:04 Microsoft Word considered to be [INDISTINCT] according to whoever transcribed the video. :-)

[sleepersix]

I'm curious, how does that guy write code if he is blind?

[Yobotistan]

I literally love org-mode. I do all my work in it.

[flowewritharoma]

Emacs is a electronic machintosh!

[Exdozolie]

@psykontube I don't know what is harder to listen to; Indian or German accent^^

[ikdsjOFFICIAL]

right ya, wat great

[lowertz]

Come on! Emacs is useless... There are usable editors out there too

[psykontube]

Oh boy i was about to turn off the video until i noticed that guy was only introducing the other one, i absolutely wouldn't be able to tolerate 40min of listening to that voice.