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* General Introductions to Org-mode
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- [[http://orgmode.org/talks/GoogleTech.html][Google Tech Talk about Org-mode]], a 45 minute talk given by Carsten
  Dominik during a visit at [[http://maps.google.com/%3Fq%3D37.423156,-122.084917%2B(Google%20Inc.)&hl%3Den][Google]].

- [[http://www.nf.mpg.de/orgmode/guest-talk-dominik.html][Organizing a Scientist's Life and Work]], a 45 minute talk given by
  Carsten Dominik during a visit at the [[http://www.nf.mpg.de/][Max-Planck Institute for
  neurological Research Cologne]].

- On [[http://twit.tv/floss136][FLOSS Weekly Episode 136]] (Audio+Video download available) 
  Randal Schwartz interviews Carsten Dominik about Org-mode.

- [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-screencasts/ghm2011-demo.html][Emacs Org-mode presentation at GNU Hackers Meeting 2011 in Paris]] (in
  English), by Bastien Guerry.

- [[http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9116][Getting Organized with Emacs Org-mode]] by [[http://www.planetizen.com/user/2][Abhijeet Chavan]], an article
  originally published in the [[http://www.linuxjournal.com/][Linux Journal]].

- [[file:orgtutorial_dto.org][The OrgMode tutorial]] by [[http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/][David O'Toole]], covering the basics of TODO
  lists and the agenda.  It has been translated into [[file:orgtutorial_dto-fr.org][French]], [[http://hpcgi1.nifty.com/spen/index.cgi?OrgMode%2fOrgTutorial][Japanese]],
  [[file:orgtutorial_dto-es.org][Spanish]], [[http://hokmen.chan.googlepages.com/OrgTutorial.en-cn.html][Chinese]], [[http://jmjeong.com/index.php?display=Emacs/OrgMode][Korean]], [[http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/emacs/105300/][Russian]] and [[http://deneb.iszt.hu/~pasztor/orgtutorial/notebook/orgtutorial-hu.html][Hungarian]].

- [[http://jaderholm.com/screencasts.html][A 25 minute screencast]] by [[http://jaderholm.com][Scott Jaderholm]], demonstrating the basic
  features of Org-mode.

- [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2008/01/18/outlining-your-notes-with-org/][Outlining Your Notes with Org]] by [[http://sachachua.com/wp/][Sacha Chua]] covers outlining,
  searching and internal links.

- [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.html][Using Emacs org-mode for GTD]] by [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/][Charles Cave]] contains an
  introduction into Org-mode, among other things.  Charles has also
  written a more extensive document ([[id:50A0DEB1-4B63-4CC4-840E-313615C4BAE3][see below]]), but here we still
  link to the earlier version because of its nice overview over
  Org-mode.

- Emacs Org-mode, [[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/8547][video version of a 2-hour talk]] by Russell Adams at
  the [[http://www.hlug.org/][Houston Linux User Group]].  The first half of the first hour is
  /not/ about Org-mode, but about the Linux command =xargs=.

- /In German language:/ [[ftp://ftp.freiesmagazin.de/2009/freiesMagazin-2009-10.pdf][Ordnung ins Chaos mit Org-Mode]], an excellent
  introduction into Org-mode, by Rainer Koenig, published in the free
  electronic journal [[http://www.freiesmagazin.de/][Freies Magazin]].

- /In French:/ A [[http://www.olivierberger.com/weblog/index.php?post/2010/08/14/Ma-vie-a-chang%C3%A9-%3A-j-utilise-org-mode][general introduction]] on Org for the "[[http://lifehacking.fr][lifehacking]]"
  group, by Olivier Berger.

* Power users describe their setup
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#+index: Setup

  In the following documents, the authors describe the details of
  their setup, along with the workflows they use to get organized with
  Org-mode.  While as a beginner you probably should start with only a
  simple setup, these descriptions will be a fantastic source of
  inspiration once you start growing your use of Org-mode.

  - [[http://www.newartisans.com/2007/08/using-org-mode-as-a-day-planner.html][Using Org-mode as a day planner]] by [[http://johnwiegley.com][John Wiegley]] shows how to use
    Org-mode after the fashion of a pen-and-paper day planner.

  - [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/gtd_workflow.html][How I use Emacs and Org-mode to implement GTD]] by [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/][Charles Cave]]
    shows one method of doing GTD with org-mode and covers (among
    other things) categories, effort estimates, tags, scheduling, and
    custom agenda commands.

  - [[http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html][Organize Your Life In Plain Text!]] by Bernt Hansen describes how to
    use Org-mode to track and clock everything you work on.

* Tutorials on specific features
** Lists

- A short [[http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/org-playing-with-lists-screencast.html][screencast]] presenting a few features of plain lists, by
  Bastien.

** Tables, Spreadseet, Plotting

- [[file:tables.org][A very short introduction to tables in Org-mode]], by Bastien.

- [[file:org-spreadsheet-intro.org][A very short introduction to Org as a spreadsheet system]], by
  Bastien.

- [[file:org-spreadsheet-lisp-formulas.org][Using Emacs lisp for spreadsheet formulas]], by Bastien.

- [[file:org-plot.org][Plotting tables in Org-Mode using org-plot]] by Eric Schulte

- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQAd41VAXWo][Can your editor do this]], awesome little video showing how to create
  HTML tables from an embedded Org-mode table.

- [[file:multitarget-tables.org][Using multiple-target tables and general formatting functions]] by
  [[http://claimid.com/ejr/][Jason Riedy]].

- [[http://www.hollenback.net/index.php/EmacsOrgTimestamps][Timestamps in Org and Calc]], how to calculate and display times in Org-mode by Phil Hollenback

** Dates and Times

- [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/org_dates/][Using Dates and Times in Emacs Org-mode]] by [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/][Charles Cave]].

- [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][Clocking time with Emacs Org]] by [[http://sachachua.com/wp/][Sacha Chua]].

** Tags, Properties, and Column View

- [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2008/01/04/tagging-in-org-plus-bonus-code-for-timeclocks-and-tags/][Tagging in Org]] by [[http://sachachua.com/wp/][Sacha Chua]].

- [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/5107/focus%3D5134][What's the use of Column View?]] by Christian Egli is a short tutorial
  about Column View that was sent to [[http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode][emacs-orgmode@gnu.org]].

- [[file:org-column-view-tutorial.org][Emacs Org's Column View]] by [[http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/][Bastien]], with an accompanying [[http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/org-column-screencast.php][screencast]].

** Remember

- [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/remember.html][Remember mode tutorial]] by [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/][Charles Cave]].

- [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/10/05/remembering-to-org-and-planner/][Remembering to Org and Planner]] by [[http://sachachua.com/wp/][Sacha Chua]].

** Capture

- [[file:org-protocol-custom-handler.org][Defining custom handlers for use with org-protocol]] by Sebastian Rose

- [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/datetree.html][Capture mode  and date trees in org-mode]] by [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/][Charles Cave]].

** Agenda and search

- [[file:org-custom-agenda-commands.org][Using custom agenda commands]] by Matt Lundin

- [[file:advanced-searching.org][Advanced searching]] by Matt Lundin

** Customization

- [[file:org-customize.org][Using customize to find and set options]] by Carsten Dominik.
- [[file:org-appearance.org][Customizing Org appearance]]

** Export and Publishing

- [[file:org-publish-html-tutorial.org][Publishing Org-mode files to HTML]], covering the basics of publishing
  to HTML, by Sebastian Rose.
- [[file:org-publish-layersmenu.org][Phplayersmenu and HTML publishing]], shows how to create and maintain JavaScript
  menus (Phplayermenu) for HTML export, by Sebastian Rose.
- [[file:images-and-xhtml-export.org][Images and XHTML export]], shows simple image handling in HTML export, by
  Sebastian Rose.
- [[file:org-taskjuggler.org][Creating Gantt charts by exporting to TaskJuggler]], explains the
  usage of the TaskJuggler exporter.
- [[file:org-latex-export.org][Using the LaTeX exporter]] introduces configuration topics.
- [[file:org-google-sync.org][Syncing with Google Calendar]]

* Special tasks
** Natural Project Planning

- [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/][Charles Cave]] about using Org-mode to implement [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/Natural_Project_Planning.html][Natural Project
  Planning]] according to David Allen.

** Tracking Habits

- [[file:tracking-habits.org][Tracking habits with org-mode]], by Matt Lundin.

** Using version Control with Your org files
- [[file:org-vcs.org][Using version control with your org files]], by Ian Barton.

** How to use jsMath with org-mode
- [[file:org-jsmath.org][How to use jsMath with org-mode]], by Darlan Cavalcante Moreira.

** Creating a Blog with Jekyll and org
- How to create a [[file:org-jekyll.org][blog]] with Jekyll.

** Creating Beamer presentations

   - Here is a [[file:org-beamer/tutorial.org][tutorial]], by Eric S. Fraga.
   - Also available is a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho6nMWGtepY&feature=player_embedded][YouTube video]] by Shulei Zhu, demonstrating the
     whole process.
** Creating Non-Beamer presentations

   - A simple [[file:non-beamer-presentations.org][tutorial]] by Eric Schulte

** Keeping up with your team's tasks
   A setup that makes it easy to [[http://juanreyero.com/article/emacs/org-teams.html][keep up with the work]] of several
   people, packaged as org-secretary.el in contrib.
** Tracking tasks through a series of meetings
   This tutorial describes a workflow for running a series of
   meetings, for example of a commission or any other group, and for
   keeping track of the groups tasks.  [[file:org-meeting-tasks.org][Link to the tutorial]].
   
* Personal Setup

  See also [[id:50A0DEB1-4B63-4CC4-840E-313615C4BAE3][Powerusers describe their setup]]

  - [[http://sachachua.com/wp/][Sacha Chua]] about [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/22/a-day-in-a-life-with-org/][A day in a life with Org]] and about the basics of
    [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/28/emacs-getting-things-done-with-org-basic/][Getting Things Done with Org]]

  - David O'Toole explains his setup in [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4832][this post]].

  - This [[http://www.brool.com/?p=82][blog post]] shows a very simple and clear GTD setup.

  - Manuel Hermenegildo describes his [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/6701/focus%3D6732][Setup for collaborative work
    using Org]].

  - Jan Böcker describes his approach to [[http://www.jboecker.de/2010/04/14/general-reference-filing-with-org-mode.html][general reference filing]] with
    org-mode.

* Screencasts

  See the [[file:org-screencasts/index.org][Screencasts]] page for a complete list of Org-mode screencasts.

* Features waiting for tutorials

- The Clock Table
- Sparse Trees
- Hyperlinks
- Using TODO states
- Using TAGS
- Embedded LaTeX
- Using orgtbl-mode in LaTeX
- Capture

* Org-related pages by Tutorial authors

Here are the pages of a number of people that write for or about
Org-mode:

  - [[http://www.newartisans.com][John Wiegley]]

  - [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/][Charles Cave]]

  - [[http://sachachua.com/wp/][Sacha Chua]]

  - [[http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/][Bastien Guerry]]