Org Mode tools

Pandoc is the Swiss-army knife to convert files from one markup format into another, it can convert documents from many source format, including Org, to many other.

• Author: Enrico Schumann
• Homepage: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/orgutils/

Helper functions for Org files (http://orgmode.org/): a generic function 'toOrg' for transforming R objects into Org markup (most useful for data frames; there are also methods for Dates/POSIXt) and a function to read Org tables into data frames.

• Description and examples

Convert data.frames into org tables.

library(orgutils)
toOrg(head(mtcars))

• Authors: David Hajage [aut], Mark Clements [cre, ctb], Seth Falcon [ctb], Terry Therneau [ctb], Matti Pastell [ctb], Friedrich Leisch [ctb]
• Homepage: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ascii/, https://github.com/mclements/ascii

Coerce R object to 'asciidoc', 'txt2tags', 'restructuredText', 'org', 'textile' or 'pandoc' syntax. Package comes with a set of drivers for 'Sweave'.

• Description and examples

Convert several R objects like tables, data.frame matrices into org tables

library(ascii)
print(ascii(head(mtcars)),type='org')

print(ascii(table(mtcars$am,mtcars$gear)),type='org')

print(ascii(as.matrix(head(mtcars))),type='org')

• Read the announcement and the message sent to the Org-mode list
• Browse the project page and source code
• Participate in the mailing list

See https://github.com/DanielDe/org-web

organice is an implementation of Org mode without the dependency of Emacs. It is built for mobile and desktop browsers and syncs with Dropbox, Google Drive and WebDAV.

Orgmode for drupal import org files into drupal nodes.

Static is a simple static site generator written in Clojure. For a sample site build using static see http://nakkaya.com

You can grab the latest version of nakkaya from its github repository.

orgitdown is based on markitup and allows to use Org keybindings in text areas through some javascript magic. The text inserted is using Org's syntax, and can be further processed with Emacs in batch mode on the server.

Check Nagarjuna G announcement on the mailing list.

Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. To start blogging with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templates, CSS, Javascripts and set up your configuration. But with Octopress All of that is already taken care of. Simply clone or fork Octopress, install dependencies and the theme, and you’re set.

You can clone Octopress from the github repository.

orgmode-octopress is an exporter for Emacs Org-Mode to Octopress by craftkiller. For setup instructions, check this blog entry. Note that orgmode-octopress will not work with the new export engine in Org 8.0.

Jay McCarthy wrote this, using Racket.

See this message from Andreas Hirczy:

I have written yet another converter from planner to org: http://itp.tugraz.at/~ahi/Computer/SW/muse2org.html http://itp.tugraz.at/~ahi/Computer/SW/muse2org

Simon Thum shared some Ruby code to export vCards to Org-mode entries.

https://github.com/kautsig/ews-orgmode

See this message from Chris Raschl:

I recently wrote a python script to fetch my calendar from the corporate
exchange server into an orgmode file to view it in my agenda.
It uses the exchange webservices (ews).

• Authors: Mark Edgington, Christophe-Marie Duquesne
• Homepage: https://bitbucket.org/edgimar/michel-orgmode

Michel-orgmode is a python script which serves as a bridge between an org-mode textfile and a Google-tasks task list. It can pull the contents of a Google-tasks list into an org-mode file, or push an org-mode file's contents to a Google-tasks list. It supports bidirectional sync.

Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Felix Geller wrote:

I wrote a Python [[https://bitbucket.org/fgeller/gcal2org/src/8fa7d2b83ab3/gcal2org.py][script]] that uses the GData API to download events for your
Google Calendar and prints them to a given org-file. It is a very tiny
script, but perhaps it is of use to other people as well.

Small disclaimer: I've tested this on Mac OS X only, using Python 2.7.2.

The script can be found here: gcal2org.py

In this email, Attila shared a script to move notes from Tomboy to Org-mode – see his message:

I'm moving my note-taking from GNote (C++ rewrite of Tomboy Notes) to
org-mode.  As I have a lot of notes all over the place, I wrote a script to
convert from the XML format used by the Tomboy-style tools to org-mode.

You can find the script here: https://github.com/StAlphonsos/scriptologie

• Author: Patrick Brennan
• Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/orgutil/

Script for converting files into and out of Org-mode, and for performing
various analyses and conversions. The primary use case for this utility is
to convert between Org-mode outline text and AbstractSpoon's ToDoList.

• Author: Matt Lundin
• Code: org2remind

Remind is a command line calendar application for Unix/Linux that can, among other things, spit out formatted plain text calendars and agendas.

http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind

To convert org-mode appointments to remind data, simply call the
script on one or more org files:

perl org2remind.pl ~/org/*.org

(Optionally, add the script to your path and make it executable.)

The results of this script can saved in a file...

perl org2remind.pl ~/org/*.org >> org.rem 

...or piped directly into a remind command...

perl org2remind.pl ~/org/*.org | remind -

For a nice calendar of the current month, use the following: 

perl org2remind.pl ~/org/*.org | remind -c -

This script is similar to org2rem.el (in the contrib directory of the
org-mode repository), except that, instead of saving files from within
org-mode, it allows for easier and faster access to org/remind data
from the command line.

Currently, the script supports appointments (i.e., active timestamps)
and the org-diary-class sexp.

• Author: Eric S Fraga
• Code: ical2org.awk

See the org-google-sync tutorial for explanations on how to use this script.

• Author: Simon Thum
• Code: ical2org
• handles events and TODOs
• all sorts of repeating events
• and timezones!
• one-way only though
  • except if you have a REST-capable ical server, see README

• Author: Daniel German
• Code: org-manage (based on org-octopress)
• Lists all org files in a given directory and its subdirectories, providing a table of org files, including their title and category.

This is a module to help managing a large collection of org files. It is based on org-octopress by Yoshinari Nomura.

org-manage scans a given directory (recursively) looking for org files. For each, an entry is created. The title is extracted from the attribute #+TITLE: in the org file. The category is extracted from the first #+CATEGORY in the file (I suggest you add a default category to each file.

• Author: Xu FaSheng
• Homepage: https://github.com/fasheng/vimwiki2org

See the page Org Blogs and Wikis.

• Author: GitHub user cashTangoTangoCash
• website: https://github.com/cashTangoTangoCash/orgFixLinks
• repairs broken links in org files
• currently Linux-only, but probably straighforward to port to Win/Mac?

A stand-alone Python script designed to interactively repair broken links to local files in one, many, or all of your org files. OK, it's an amateur command line script that likely needs more refinement, and it chooses to do things that not everyone desires, but you can fork it on GitHub, and adapt it to your own purposes. If you are frustrated by broken links to the degree that you are ready to debug a lengthy Python script, why not play with it. The GitHub wiki https://github.com/cashTangoTangoCash/orgFixLinks/wiki provides a degree of documentation.

• Author: Karl Voit (publicvoit)
• Website: https://github.com/novoid/orgformat
• License: GPL 3.0
• Technology: Python 3
• Bugs and feature requests: https://github.com/novoid/orgformat/issues
• State of development: 2023-04-09 actively used by the author in his other org-related projects

The orgformat library contains handy Python 3 functions to process Org-mode sytntax elements like links, time-stamps, or date-stamps. If you're developing Org-related tools in Python, you should check out this library first.

This library was developed using test-driven-development and is implemented using Python type annotations for mypy checks in order to make sure that there aren't many hidden bugs.

If you want to contribute further functions, please do send pull requests via GitHub.

• Author: Karl Voit (publicvoit)
• Website: https://github.com/novoid/org-contacts2vcard
• License: GPL 3.0
• Technology: Python 3
• Bugs and feature requests: https://github.com/novoid/org-contacts2vcard/issues
• State of development: 2023-04-09 used by the author to convert his contacts for being imported to Android.

This workflow works great with one disadvantage: there is a weird issue where (random) contact images aren't imported since many Android versions. Karl gave up analyzing it because he ran out of ideas. However, for the contact information without images, it's working flawlessly so far.

• Author: Karl Voit (publicvoit)
• Website: https://github.com/novoid/appendorgheading
• License: GPL 3.0
• Technology: Python 3
• Bugs and feature requests: https://github.com/novoid/appendorgheading/issues
• State of development: 2023-04-09 used by the author on a daily basis; seems stable.

This small tool is very handy to be used, e.g., in shell scripts to get error messages and so forth onto your Org-mode agenda.

• Author: Karl Voit (publicvoit)
• Website: https://github.com/novoid/org-du
• License: GPL 3.0
• Technology: Python 3
• Bugs and feature requests: https://github.com/novoid/org-du/issues
• State of development: 2023-04-09 stable

This fine trick is (mis-)using xdu to get a graphical overview on the structure of an Orgdown file. See the screenshot in the README to get an idea.

• Author: Karl Voit (publicvoit)
• Website: https://github.com/novoid/postprocess_Org-mode_iCal_export
• License: GPL 3.0
• Technology: Python 3
• Bugs and feature requests: https://github.com/novoid/postprocess_Org-mode_iCal_export/issues
• State of development: 2023-04-09 not used by the author for a couple of years.

This tool post-processes iCal export results such taht you can hide some data for privacy reasons or add reminder alarms defined as Org-mode tags.

• Author: Karl Voit (publicvoit)
• Website: https://github.com/novoid/orgmode-balance
• License: -
• Technology: Shell script
• Bugs and feature requests: https://github.com/novoid/orgmode-balance/issues
• State of development: 2023-04-09 stable.

This is a more or less quick hack that analyzes Orgdown files and gives feedback on how you are doing today (or at a given day).

The script lists:

• closed items,
• created items and
• items still due

The metrics are clearly subjective and should be improved. Please do fork and send improvements via merge requests!

Example output:

    ----===   2012-03-03   ===----

  closed:
work.org-**** DONE thanked administrators for great work
work.org-**** DONE submitted project report
work.org-**** DONE successfully ignored coffee machine
work.org-**** DONE volunteered for WORG project


      0 created (& still open)  -  4 done  =  -4  sum

  Congratulations!  Not more tasks generated than solved!


      Still 21 deadlines due tough!