Org: Your Life in Plain Text

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

Simplicity

At its core, Org-mode is a simple outliner for note-taking and list management. You can learn the basics for using it in five minutes. This may be all you need, and Org-mode will not impose more complex features on you.

Portability

Org files are plain text. You can view and edit them in any editor, or add and extract data with custom-made scripts. Your data will never be locked into an obscure or proprietary data format. Org-mode runs in Emacs, which is available for nearly every platform.

Depth

Org-mode will not let you down when you need more than a simple outline. The full feature set is both broad and deep, easy to access, but unobtrusive. The typical answer to "Can it do X?" is "Yes!".

Flexibility

Org-mode is like a Swiss army knife. People use it for Getting Things Done (GTD), as a Day Planner, as a Notebook, for Web and PDF authoring, and much more.

Support

Org-mode is documented extensively, and many tutorials put spotlights on particular features. Org-mode is supported by an active mailing list where questions are answered quickly and effectively.

It's free!

Org is free software, it is published under the GNU GPL license version 3, like GNU Emacs.

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