Org Mode Manual
This manual is for Org version 8.2.9.
| Introduction | Getting started |
| Document Structure | A tree works like your brain |
| Tables | Pure magic for quick formatting |
| Hyperlinks | Notes in context |
| TODO Items | Every tree branch can be a TODO item |
| Tags | Tagging headlines and matching sets of tags |
| Properties and Columns | Storing information about an entry |
| Dates and Times | Making items useful for planning |
| Capture - Refile - Archive | The ins and outs for projects |
| Agenda Views | Collecting information into views |
| Markup | Prepare text for rich export |
| Exporting | Sharing and publishing notes |
| Publishing | Create a web site of linked Org files |
| Working With Source Code | Export, evaluate, and tangle code blocks |
| Miscellaneous | All the rest which did not fit elsewhere |
| Hacking | How to hack your way around |
| MobileOrg | Viewing and capture on a mobile device |
| History and Acknowledgments | How Org came into being |
| GNU Free Documentation License | The license for this documentation. |
| Main Index | An index of Org’s concepts and features |
| Key Index | Key bindings and where they are described |
| Command and Function Index | Command names and some internal functions |
| Variable Index | Variables mentioned in the manual |
Detailed Node Listing
| Introduction | |
|---|---|
| Summary | Brief summary of what Org does |
| Installation | Installing Org |
| Activation | How to activate Org for certain buffers |
| Feedback | Bug reports, ideas, patches etc. |
| Conventions | Typesetting conventions in the manual |
| Document structure | |
| Outlines | Org is based on Outline mode |
| Headlines | How to typeset Org tree headlines |
| Visibility cycling | Show and hide, much simplified |
| Motion | Jumping to other headlines |
| Structure editing | Changing sequence and level of headlines |
| Sparse trees | Matches embedded in context |
| Plain lists | Additional structure within an entry |
| Drawers | Tucking stuff away |
| Blocks | Folding blocks |
| Footnotes | How footnotes are defined in Org’s syntax |
| Orgstruct mode | Structure editing outside Org |
| Org syntax | Formal description of Org’s syntax |
| Visibility cycling | |
| Global and local cycling | Cycling through various visibility states |
| Initial visibility | Setting the initial visibility state |
| Catching invisible edits | Preventing mistakes when editing invisible parts |
| Global and local cycling | |
| Initial visibility | Setting the initial visibility state |
| Catching invisible edits | Preventing mistakes when editing invisible parts |
| Tables | |
| Built-in table editor | Simple tables |
| Column width and alignment | Overrule the automatic settings |
| Column groups | Grouping to trigger vertical lines |
| Orgtbl mode | The table editor as minor mode |
| The spreadsheet | The table editor has spreadsheet capabilities |
| Org-Plot | Plotting from org tables |
| The spreadsheet | |
| References | How to refer to another field or range |
| Formula syntax for Calc | Using Calc to compute stuff |
| Formula syntax for Lisp | Writing formulas in Emacs Lisp |
| Durations and time values | How to compute durations and time values |
| Field and range formulas | Formula for specific (ranges of) fields |
| Column formulas | Formulas valid for an entire column |
| Lookup functions | Lookup functions for searching tables |
| Editing and debugging formulas | Fixing formulas |
| Updating the table | Recomputing all dependent fields |
| Advanced features | Field and column names, parameters and automatic recalc |
| Hyperlinks | |
| Link format | How links in Org are formatted |
| Internal links | Links to other places in the current file |
| External links | URL-like links to the world |
| Handling links | Creating, inserting and following |
| Using links outside Org | Linking from my C source code? |
| Link abbreviations | Shortcuts for writing complex links |
| Search options | Linking to a specific location |
| Custom searches | When the default search is not enough |
| Internal links | |
| Radio targets | Make targets trigger links in plain text |
| TODO items | |
| TODO basics | Marking and displaying TODO entries |
| TODO extensions | Workflow and assignments |
| Progress logging | Dates and notes for progress |
| Priorities | Some things are more important than others |
| Breaking down tasks | Splitting a task into manageable pieces |
| Checkboxes | Tick-off lists |
| Extended use of TODO keywords | |
| Workflow states | From TODO to DONE in steps |
| TODO types | I do this, Fred does the rest |
| Multiple sets in one file | Mixing it all, and still finding your way |
| Fast access to TODO states | Single letter selection of a state |
| Per-file keywords | Different files, different requirements |
| Faces for TODO keywords | Highlighting states |
| TODO dependencies | When one task needs to wait for others |
| Progress logging | |
| Closing items | When was this entry marked DONE? |
| Tracking TODO state changes | When did the status change? |
| Tracking your habits | How consistent have you been? |
| Tags | |
| Tag inheritance | Tags use the tree structure of the outline |
| Setting tags | How to assign tags to a headline |
| Tag groups | Use one tag to search for several tags |
| Tag searches | Searching for combinations of tags |
| Properties and columns | |
| Property syntax | How properties are spelled out |
| Special properties | Access to other Org mode features |
| Property searches | Matching property values |
| Property inheritance | Passing values down the tree |
| Column view | Tabular viewing and editing |
| Property API | Properties for Lisp programmers |
| Column view | |
| Defining columns | The COLUMNS format property |
| Using column view | How to create and use column view |
| Capturing column view | A dynamic block for column view |
| Defining columns | |
| Scope of column definitions | Where defined, where valid? |
| Column attributes | Appearance and content of a column |
| Dates and times | |
| Timestamps | Assigning a time to a tree entry |
| Creating timestamps | Commands which insert timestamps |
| Deadlines and scheduling | Planning your work |
| Clocking work time | Tracking how long you spend on a task |
| Effort estimates | Planning work effort in advance |
| Relative timer | Notes with a running timer |
| Countdown timer | Starting a countdown timer for a task |
| Creating timestamps | |
| The date/time prompt | How Org mode helps you entering date and time |
| Custom time format | Making dates look different |
| Deadlines and scheduling | |
| Inserting deadline/schedule | Planning items |
| Repeated tasks | Items that show up again and again |
| Clocking work time | |
| Clocking commands | Starting and stopping a clock |
| The clock table | Detailed reports |
| Resolving idle time | Resolving time when you’ve been idle |
| Capture - Refile - Archive | |
| Capture | Capturing new stuff |
| Attachments | Add files to tasks |
| RSS Feeds | Getting input from RSS feeds |
| Protocols | External (e.g., Browser) access to Emacs and Org |
| Refile and copy | Moving/copying a tree from one place to another |
| Archiving | What to do with finished projects |
| Capture | |
| Setting up capture | Where notes will be stored |
| Using capture | Commands to invoke and terminate capture |
| Capture templates | Define the outline of different note types |
| Capture templates | |
| Template elements | What is needed for a complete template entry |
| Template expansion | Filling in information about time and context |
| Templates in contexts | Only show a template in a specific context |
| Archiving | |
| Moving subtrees | Moving a tree to an archive file |
| Internal archiving | Switch off a tree but keep it in the file |
| Agenda views | |
| Agenda files | Files being searched for agenda information |
| Agenda dispatcher | Keyboard access to agenda views |
| Built-in agenda views | What is available out of the box? |
| Presentation and sorting | How agenda items are prepared for display |
| Agenda commands | Remote editing of Org trees |
| Custom agenda views | Defining special searches and views |
| Exporting Agenda Views | Writing a view to a file |
| Agenda column view | Using column view for collected entries |
| The built-in agenda views | |
| Weekly/daily agenda | The calendar page with current tasks |
| Global TODO list | All unfinished action items |
| Matching tags and properties | Structured information with fine-tuned search |
| Timeline | Time-sorted view for single file |
| Search view | Find entries by searching for text |
| Stuck projects | Find projects you need to review |
| Presentation and sorting | |
| Categories | Not all tasks are equal |
| Time-of-day specifications | How the agenda knows the time |
| Sorting agenda items | The order of things |
| Filtering/limiting agenda items | Dynamically narrow the agenda |
| Custom agenda views | |
| Storing searches | Type once, use often |
| Block agenda | All the stuff you need in a single buffer |
| Setting Options | Changing the rules |
| Markup for rich export | |
| Structural markup elements | The basic structure as seen by the exporter |
| Images and tables | Images, tables and caption mechanism |
| Literal examples | Source code examples with special formatting |
| Include files | Include additional files into a document |
| Index entries | Making an index |
| Macro replacement | Use macros to create templates |
| Embedded LaTeX | LaTeX can be freely used inside Org documents |
| Special blocks | Containers targeted at export back-ends |
| Structural markup elements | |
| Document title | Where the title is taken from |
| Headings and sections | The document structure as seen by the exporter |
| Table of contents | The if and where of the table of contents |
| Lists | Lists |
| Paragraphs | Paragraphs |
| Footnote markup | Footnotes |
| Emphasis and monospace | Bold, italic, etc. |
| Horizontal rules | Make a line |
| Comment lines | What will *not* be exported |
| Embedded LaTeX | |
| Special symbols | Greek letters and other symbols |
| Subscripts and superscripts | Simple syntax for raising/lowering text |
| LaTeX fragments | Complex formulas made easy |
| Previewing LaTeX fragments | What will this snippet look like? |
| CDLaTeX mode | Speed up entering of formulas |
| Exporting | |
| The Export Dispatcher | The main exporter interface |
| Export back-ends | Built-in export formats |
| Export settings | Generic export settings |
| ASCII/Latin-1/UTF-8 export | Exporting to flat files with encoding |
| Beamer export | Exporting as a Beamer presentation |
| HTML export | Exporting to HTML |
| LaTeX and PDF export | Exporting to LaTeX, and processing to PDF |
| Markdown export | Exporting to Markdown |
| OpenDocument Text export | Exporting to OpenDocument Text |
| Org export | Exporting to Org |
| Texinfo export | Exporting to Texinfo |
| iCalendar export | Exporting to iCalendar |
| Other built-in back-ends | Exporting to a man page |
| Export in foreign buffers | Author tables and lists in Org syntax |
| Advanced configuration | Fine-tuning the export output |
| HTML export | |
| HTML Export commands | How to invoke HTML export |
| HTML doctypes | Org can export to various (X)HTML flavors |
| HTML preamble and postamble | How to insert a preamble and a postamble |
| Quoting HTML tags | Using direct HTML in Org mode |
| Links in HTML export | How links will be interpreted and formatted |
| Tables in HTML export | How to modify the formatting of tables |
| Images in HTML export | How to insert figures into HTML output |
| Math formatting in HTML export | Beautiful math also on the web |
| Text areas in HTML export | An alternative way to show an example |
| CSS support | Changing the appearance of the output |
| JavaScript support | Info and Folding in a web browser |
| LaTeX and PDF export | |
| LaTeX export commands | How to export to LaTeX and PDF |
| Header and sectioning | Setting up the export file structure |
| Quoting LaTeX code | Incorporating literal LaTeX code |
| LaTeX specific attributes | Controlling LaTeX output |
| OpenDocument Text export | |
| Pre-requisites for ODT export | What packages ODT exporter relies on |
| ODT export commands | How to invoke ODT export |
| Extending ODT export | How to produce ‘doc’, ‘pdf’ files |
| Applying custom styles | How to apply custom styles to the output |
| Links in ODT export | How links will be interpreted and formatted |
| Tables in ODT export | How Tables are exported |
| Images in ODT export | How to insert images |
| Math formatting in ODT export | How LaTeX fragments are formatted |
| Labels and captions in ODT export | How captions are rendered |
| Literal examples in ODT export | How source and example blocks are formatted |
| Advanced topics in ODT export | Read this if you are a power user |
| Math formatting in ODT export | |
| Working with LaTeX math snippets | How to embed LaTeX math fragments |
| Working with MathML or OpenDocument formula files | How to embed equations in native format |
| Advanced topics in ODT export | |
| Configuring a document converter | How to register a document converter |
| Working with OpenDocument style files | Explore the internals |
| Creating one-off styles | How to produce custom highlighting etc |
| Customizing tables in ODT export | How to define and use Table templates |
| Validating OpenDocument XML | How to debug corrupt OpenDocument files |
| Texinfo export | |
| Texinfo export commands | How to invoke Texinfo export |
| Document preamble | File header, title and copyright page |
| Headings and sectioning structure | Building document structure |
| Indices | Creating indices |
| Quoting Texinfo code | Incorporating literal Texinfo code |
| Texinfo specific attributes | Controlling Texinfo output |
| An example | |
| Publishing | |
| Configuration | Defining projects |
| Uploading files | How to get files up on the server |
| Sample configuration | Example projects |
| Triggering publication | Publication commands |
| Configuration | |
| Project alist | The central configuration variable |
| Sources and destinations | From here to there |
| Selecting files | What files are part of the project? |
| Publishing action | Setting the function doing the publishing |
| Publishing options | Tweaking HTML/LaTeX export |
| Publishing links | Which links keep working after publishing? |
| Sitemap | Generating a list of all pages |
| Generating an index | An index that reaches across pages |
| Sample configuration | |
| Simple example | One-component publishing |
| Complex example | A multi-component publishing example |
| Working with source code | |
| Structure of code blocks | Code block syntax described |
| Editing source code | Language major-mode editing |
| Exporting code blocks | Export contents and/or results |
| Extracting source code | Create pure source code files |
| Evaluating code blocks | Place results of evaluation in the Org mode buffer |
| Library of Babel | Use and contribute to a library of useful code blocks |
| Languages | List of supported code block languages |
| Header arguments | Configure code block functionality |
| Results of evaluation | How evaluation results are handled |
| Noweb reference syntax | Literate programming in Org mode |
| Key bindings and useful functions | Work quickly with code blocks |
| Batch execution | Call functions from the command line |
| Header arguments | |
| Using header arguments | Different ways to set header arguments |
| Specific header arguments | List of header arguments |
| Using header arguments | |
| System-wide header arguments | Set global default values |
| Language-specific header arguments | Set default values by language |
| Header arguments in Org mode properties | Set default values for a buffer or heading |
| Language-specific header arguments in Org mode properties | Set language-specific default values for a buffer or heading |
| Code block specific header arguments | The most common way to set values |
| Header arguments in function calls | The most specific level |
| Specific header arguments | |
| var | Pass arguments to code blocks |
| results | Specify the type of results and how they will be collected and handled |
| file | Specify a path for file output |
| file-desc | Specify a description for file results |
| dir | Specify the default (possibly remote) directory for code block execution |
| exports | Export code and/or results |
| tangle | Toggle tangling and specify file name |
| mkdirp | Toggle creation of parent directories of target files during tangling |
| comments | Toggle insertion of comments in tangled code files |
| padline | Control insertion of padding lines in tangled code files |
| no-expand | Turn off variable assignment and noweb expansion during tangling |
| session | Preserve the state of code evaluation |
| noweb | Toggle expansion of noweb references |
| noweb-ref | Specify block’s noweb reference resolution target |
| noweb-sep | String used to separate noweb references |
| cache | Avoid re-evaluating unchanged code blocks |
| sep | Delimiter for writing tabular results outside Org |
| hlines | Handle horizontal lines in tables |
| colnames | Handle column names in tables |
| rownames | Handle row names in tables |
| shebang | Make tangled files executable |
| tangle-mode | Set permission of tangled files |
| eval | Limit evaluation of specific code blocks |
| wrap | Mark source block evaluation results |
| post | Post processing of code block results |
| prologue | Text to prepend to code block body |
| epilogue | Text to append to code block body |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Completion | M-TAB knows what you need |
| Easy Templates | Quick insertion of structural elements |
| Speed keys | Electric commands at the beginning of a headline |
| Code evaluation security | Org mode files evaluate inline code |
| Customization | Adapting Org to your taste |
| In-buffer settings | Overview of the #+KEYWORDS |
| The very busy C-c C-c key | When in doubt, press C-c C-c |
| Clean view | Getting rid of leading stars in the outline |
| TTY keys | Using Org on a tty |
| Interaction | Other Emacs packages |
| org-crypt | Encrypting Org files |
| Interaction with other packages | |
| Cooperation | Packages Org cooperates with |
| Conflicts | Packages that lead to conflicts |
| Hacking | |
| Hooks | How to reach into Org’s internals |
| Add-on packages | Available extensions |
| Adding hyperlink types | New custom link types |
| Adding export back-ends | How to write new export back-ends |
| Context-sensitive commands | How to add functionality to such commands |
| Tables in arbitrary syntax | Orgtbl for LaTeX and other programs |
| Dynamic blocks | Automatically filled blocks |
| Special agenda views | Customized views |
| Speeding up your agendas | Tips on how to speed up your agendas |
| Extracting agenda information | Post-processing of agenda information |
| Using the property API | Writing programs that use entry properties |
| Using the mapping API | Mapping over all or selected entries |
| Tables and lists in arbitrary syntax | |
| Radio tables | Sending and receiving radio tables |
| A LaTeX example | Step by step, almost a tutorial |
| Translator functions | Copy and modify |
| Radio lists | Sending and receiving lists |
| MobileOrg | |
| Setting up the staging area | Where to interact with the mobile device |
| Pushing to MobileOrg | Uploading Org files and agendas |
| Pulling from MobileOrg | Integrating captured and flagged items |
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