Org-mode Contributed Packages

docco side-by-side annotated code export to HTML

The docco tool (see http://ashkenas.com/docco/) generates HTML from JavaScript source code providing an attractive side-by-side display of source code and comments. This file (see org-docco.org) generates the same type of output from Org-mode documents with code embedded in code blocks. For example org-docco output see http://eschulte.github.io/org-docco/org-docco.html.

org-annotate-file.el – annotate a file with org syntax

The annotation is in a separate file, with links back to the annotated file. Written by Philip Jackson. Link to raw file.

org-bibtex-extras.el – extras for working with org-bibtex entries

Written by Eric Schulte. Link to raw file.

ol-bookmark.el/ – support for links to Emacs bookmarks

Written by Tokuya Kameshima. Link to raw file.

org-checklist.el – org functions for checklist handling

Reset checklists in repeating entries. Written by James TD Smith. Link to raw file.

org-choose.el – decision management for org-mode

Org-choose helps documenting a decision-making process by using TODO keywords for different degrees of chosenness, and by automatically keeping a set of alternatives in a consistent state. Writen by Tom Breton. Link to raw file.

org-collector.el – collect properties into tables

Collect and process properties into a table. Written by Eric Schulte. Link to raw file.

org-depend.el – TODO dependencies for Org-mode

Make TODO state changes in one entry trigger changes in another, or be blocked by the state of another entry. Also, easily create chains of TODO items with exactly one active item at any time. Written by Carsten Dominik. Link to raw file.

ol-elisp-symbol.el – Org links to emacs-lisp symbols.

This can create annotated links that exactly point to the definition location of a variable of function. Written by Bastien Guerry. Link to raw file.

org-expiry.el – expiry mechanism for Org entries

Written by Bastien Guerry. Link to raw file.

ol-git-link.el – link to files under git version control

This package adds new link types to link to specific versions of a file, which will be checked out when the link is activated. Written by Reimar Finken. Link to raw file.

org-interactive-query.el – interactive modification of tags queries

After running a general query in Org, this package allows to narrow down the results by adding more tags or keywords. Written by Christopher League. Link to raw file.

org-invoice.el – help manage client invoices

Written by Peter Jones. Link to raw file.

org-learn.el – Implements SuperMemo's incremental learning algorithm

Written by John Wiegley. Link to raw file.

org-mac-iCal.el – import OS X iCal.app events into Emacs diary

Written by Christopher Suckling. Link to raw file.

org-mairix.el – hook mairix search into Org for different MUAs

Written by Georg C. F. Greve. Link to raw file.

ol-mew.el – Support for links to Mew messages from within Org-mode

Written by Tokuya Kameshima Link to raw file.

org-notify.el – notifications for Org-mode

Written by Peter Münster. Link to ELPA page.

This package looks for todo-entries with deadline in your agenda files. For such entries, you can get configurable reminders: notification-pop-ups, emails, noise, and so on. You can define various notification-types, each one with its own actions and timings. Each todo-entry can have its own notification-type, defined by a property. For some notification actions (pop-ups) it's possible to mark something "done", or to shift the deadline just by one mouse-click.

ol-notmuch.el – support for links to notmuch messages

Written by Matthieu Lemerre. Link to repository.

org-panel.el – simplified and display-aided access to some Org commands

Written by Lennart Borgman. Link to raw file.

org-registry.el – a registry for Org links

Find out from where links point to a given file or location. Written by Bastien Guerry. Link to raw file.

org-screen.el – visit screen sessions through Org-mode links

Written Andrew Hyatt. Link to raw file.

org-screenshot.el – Take and manage screenshots in Org-mode files

Written by Max Mikhanosha Link to raw file.

org-secretary.el – Team management with org-mode

Written by Juan Reyero. Link to raw file.

org-sudoku.el – Create and solve SUDOKU games in Org tables

Written by Carsten Dominik. Link to raw file. ::

orgtbl-sqlinsert.el – convert Org-mode tables to SQL insertions

Written by Jason Riedy. Link to raw file.

org-toc.el – table of contents in a separate buffer

With fast access to sections and easy visibility cycling. Written by Bastien Guerry. Link to raw file.

org-velocity.el – something like Notational Velocity for Org

Written by Paul M. Rodriguez. Link to Git repository.

ol-vm.el – Support for links to VM messages from within Org-mode

Written by Carsten Dominik Link to raw file.

org-wikinodes.el – CamelCase wiki-like links to nodes

Written by Carsten Dominik. Link to raw file.

ol-wl.el – Support for links to Wanderlust messages from within Org-mode

Written by Tokuya Kameshima and David Maus Link to raw file.

org-drill.el – flashcards and spaced repetition for org-mode

Items in org-mode outlines can be used as flashcards. The user can conduct interactive "drill sessions" to memorize the material in a set of flashcards; cards are scheduled for review using the spaced repetition algorithms popularised by SuperMemo and similar programs. Numerous flashcard types are defined, and the user can add their own card types using elisp. Written by Paul Sexton.

org-auto-shorten-url.el

By Neil Smithline. Automatically shorten URLs in `org-mode' using Bit.ly or a link shortener of your choice. See the comment in the code to make sure you load the needed dependancies.

Org-bom – Bill of Materials

This add-on by Christian Fortin helps you build collections from your Org buffer and gather data in tables. Every item identified as a component will be totalized in a temporary database, from which you can extract useful information, such as the number of item per section. You should find here all you would expect from a BOM of a professionnal CAD software. Link to raw file

org-google-weather.el – weather forecast in the agenda buffer

Allow %%(org-google-weather "New York") sexps for displaying weather forecast in the agenda buffer. Written by Julien Danjou.

org-import-icalendar.el – import iCal events in an Org buffer

Written by Vagn Johansen.

org-mac-link – grab links from various mac applications

Grab the current link or selection from an open mac application and insert it as a hyperlink at point in an org-mode document. Written by Anthony Lander, John Wiegley and Christopher Suckling. This file replaces the earlier org-mac-message.el and org-mac-link-grabber.el. project page.

orgit – support for magit links

Written by Jonas Bernoulli.

org-occur-goto.el – search open org buffers with an occur interface

Usage: M-x oog, then start typing. Select from the occur matches with up/down/pgup/pgdown and press enter (you can navigate the history with M-p/M-n). The search string must be at least 3 characters long (by default).

org-search-goto.el – Use search to go to locations in your org buffers

Usage: M-x osg, then start typing. Select from the matches with up/down/pgup/pgdown and press enter to go that location (you can navigate the history with M-p/M-n). If the search string contains several strings separated by spaces then these substrings can appear in any order in the results. See the announcement on the list.

org-search-goto-ml.el – Use multiline search to go to locations in your org buffers

Usage: M-x osg, then start typing. Select from the matches with up/down/pgup/pgdown and press enter to go that location (you can navigate the history with M-p/M-n). If the search string contains several strings separated by spaces then these substrings can appear in any order in the results. The search handles an org heading and its text as one block, so the substrings can match in any part of an org entry. If the heading is not matching, only the body, the heading is added to the results anyway to indicated which entry is matched.

org-superstar.el – Prettify headings and plain lists in Org mode

Written by D. Williams. Partially based on org-bullets, prettifying headline bullets with UTF-8 characters, this package also supports special headline bullets for TODO keywords, item bullets for plain lists and further options for handling leading stars, such as the ability to hide leading stars in the same way Org hides emphasis markers. Link to the github project page.

org-link-minor-mode.el – Enables Org links in non org-mode buffers

Written by Sean O'Halpin. Link to github file and the github project page.

org-impress-js.el – impress.js export for Org mode

Written by kinjo. Link to the github project page.

org-weights.el – display the "weight" of a headline, with the # of sub headlines

Written by François Pinard. Link to the github project page.

Org-babel – execution of source code blocks

The embedded code evaluation and literate programming subsystem written by Eric Schulte and Dan Davison
Org Babel is now part of the Org core and documented in the manual. See also Babel for contrib files regarding org-babel.

org-element.el – Parser and applications for Org syntax

Written by Nicolas Goaziou. Link to raw file.

org-exp-blocks.el – pre-process blocks when exporting org files

Org-export-blocks allows for the pre-processing or blocks in org-mode files to create images, or specially formatted HTML or LaTeX output. Written by Eric Schulte.
Org-exp-blocks is now part of the Org core as ob-exp.el.

ox.el – Generic Export Engine For Org

Generic export engine for Org built on Org Elements. Written by Nicolas Goaziou. Link to raw file.
Back-ends for ox.el (ascii, html, latex, odt, publish) were previously located in the EXPERIMENTAL directory of the Org distribution. They are a part of org-mode core as ox.el and ox-∗.el since Org 8.0.

org-eww.el – Support link/copy/paste from eww to Org-mode

Makes it possible to store an org-link to the url of an eww-buffer. The second feature is to copy a region from eww keeping the links. Written by Marco Wahl. Link to raw file.

org-feed.el – add RSS feed items to Org files

Read RSS feeds from the web, add new items to Org files, and trigger actions when items have changed. Written by Carsten Dominik. Link to raw file.
This module is part of the Org core documented in the manual.

org-protocol.el – Trigger actions through URLs

org-protocol intercepts calls from emacsclient to trigger custom actions without external dependencies. Only one protocol has to be configured with your external applications or the operating system.
This package is part of the Org core and also documented in the manual.

org-R.el – Computing and data visualisation in Org-mode using R

Written by Dan Davison. Link to legacy raw file. This modules has been superseded by the Org Babel functionality, which is part of the Org core and documented in the manual.

org-special-blocks.el – turn blocks into LaTeX envs and HTML divs

Written by Chris Gray.
This package is part of the Org core.

ol-man.el – support for links to manpages in Org-mode.

Written by Carsten Dominik. Link to raw file.

htmlize.el – convert buffer text and decorations to HTML

Written by Hrvoje Niksic.
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org-bullets.el – Show bullets in org-mode as UTF-8 characters

Written by sabof
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org-jira.el – add a jira:ticket protocol to Org

Written by Jonathan Arkell, later maintained by Bao Haojun and then Matthew Carter.
Repo.

org-mime.el – org html export for text/html MIME emails

org-mime can be used to send HTML email using Org-mode HTML export.

This approximates a WYSiWYG HTML mail editor from within Emacs, and can be useful for sending tables, fontified source code, and inline images in email. Written by Eric Schulte, maintained by Chen Bin. Repo.

org-contacts.el – manage contacts

Managing contacts information, recording, searching etc in Org mode. As contacts database backend for mu4e etc. Written by Julien Danjou, now maintained by stardiviner. Link to project repo page.

org-annotation-helper.el – managing browser bookmarks

Org-annotation-helper allows to create Org-mode links and annotations while working in a browser, by simply clicking a bookmarklet. Written by Bastien Guerry and Daniel M German. Link to legacy raw file. This module has been superseded by org-protocol.el, part of the Org core, and documented in the manual.

HTML presentations from an Org file

Several possibilities here:

Note: These were all written for the old exporter, and will most likely not work with the new export framework.

• org-S5 from Eric Schulte
• org-html-slideshow from Stuart Sierra
• org-html5presentation.el from kinjo

For use with the new exporter, ox-s5.el (link to raw file) and ox-deck.el (link to raw file), both by Rick Frankel, are included in the contrib directory. The latest source and documentation for both are at https://github.com/cybercode/org-slides.

org-browser-url.el – bookmark from a browser into org links

Written by Ross Patterson. Link to legacy raw file. This module has been superseded by org-protocol.el, part of the Org core, and documented in the manual.

org-colview-xemacs.el – Column View in Org-mode, XEmacs-specific version

Written by Carsten Dominik <carsten at orgmode dot org> Removed in this commit.

org-eval.el – show evaluation result of code

The <lisp> tag, adapted from Emacs Wiki and Emacs Muse, allows text to be included in a document that is the result of evaluating some code. Other scripting languages like perl can be supported with this package as well. Written by Carsten Dominik. Link to raw file.
This modules has been superseded by the Org Babel functionality, which is part of the Org core and documented in the manual.

org-eval-light.el – display result of evaluating code in various languages (light)

Org-eval-light allows the execution of source code embedded in an org-mode file. The results of the execution are placed into the org-mode file. It is a reworking of Carsten's org-eval with the goals of a more uniform syntax, safer default execution rules, and increased ease of execution. Written by Eric Schulte. Link to raw file.
This modules has been superseded by the Org Babel functionality, which is part of the Org core and documented in the manual.

org-export-generic.el – Export org files to user-defined output formats

Org-export-generic provides the ability to create an org file and then export it to any given format you desire. This is done by defining a set of variables that include prefixes and suffixes for each line type (E.G., header, list item, etc …) and then running org-export-generic on the file to process it. Written by Wes Hardaker.

org-mtags.el – support for some Muse-like tags in Org-mode

This package allows you to write <example> and <src> and other syntax copied from Emacs Muse, right inside an Org file. The goal here is to make it easy to publish the same file using either org-publish or Muse. Written by Carsten Dominik. Removed in this commit.

org2rem.el – Convert org appointments into reminders for remind

Written by Bastien Guerry and Sharad Pratap.

Keeping this list maintained is quite a challenge. Here are some elisp functions to help with it. They require cl-lib (Emacs 24.3) and org-mode with contrib/ (git).

(require 'cl-lib)
(defun worg-parse-contrib-index.org (&optional buffer)
 "Return an alist of elisp file names.
The files are either documented, not-in-contrib, or undocumented.
TODO: Do not check files in sections except for \"contrib/\"."
 (with-current-buffer (or buffer "index.org")
   (let* ((items
           (cl-remove-duplicates
            (cl-reduce
             #'(lambda (a b) (append a b))
             (org-element-map
                 (org-element-parse-buffer)
                 'plain-list
               #'(lambda (e)
                   (delq nil
                         (mapcar
                          (lambda (item)
                            (let ((title (nth 5 item)))
                              (when (and (stringp title)
                                         (string-match "/\\([^/]+\\.el\\)/"
                                                       title))
                                (match-string 1 title))))
                          (org-element-property :structure e))))))))
          (org-contrib-files
           (directory-files
            (expand-file-name "../contrib/lisp/"
                              (file-name-directory
                               (find-lisp-object-file-name #'org-mode
                                                           #'org-mode)))
            nil "\\.el\\'" 'nosort)))
     (list
      (cons 'documented
            (cl-union items org-contrib-files))
      (cons 'not-in-contrib
            (cl-set-difference items org-contrib-files :test #'string=))
      (cons 'undocumented
            (cl-set-difference org-contrib-files items :test #'string=))))))

(require 'lisp-mnt)

(defun worg-generate-missing-contrib-index (&optional index-buffer)
  "Return a string containing auto formated entries for undocumented files."
  (let* ((parsed (worg-parse-contrib-index.org index-buffer))
         (missing (sort (cdr (assq 'undocumented parsed))
                        #'(lambda (a b) (not (string< a b)))))
         (contrib-path (expand-file-name "../contrib/lisp/"
                                         (file-name-directory
                                          (find-lisp-object-file-name #'org-mode
                                                                      #'org-mode))))
         misc babel ox)
    (dolist (i missing)
      (push
       (ignore-errors
         (lm-with-file (expand-file-name i contrib-path)
           (format "- /%s/ -- %s ::
  Written by %s
  [[contribfile:lisp/%s][Link to raw file.]]\n\n"
                   i (lm-summary)
                   (mapconcat #'(lambda (a) (concat "/" (car a) "/"))
                              (lm-authors)
                              " and ")
                   i)))
       (cond
        ((string-prefix-p "ox-" i) ox)
        ((string-prefix-p "ob-" i) babel)
        (t misc))))
    (concat
     (apply #'concat misc)
     "* Export\n"
     (apply #'concat ox)
     "* Babel\n"
     (apply #'concat babel))))