Web site: orgmode.org
Category: Office
Subcategory: Notes
Platform: Linux, OS X, Windows, Unix-like
License: GNU GPL
Interface: CLI
Wikipedia: Orh Mode
First release: 2002
Org Mode – a GNU Emacs major mode for keeping notes, authoring documents, computational notebooks, literate programming, maintaining to-do lists, planning projects, and more — in a fast and effective plain text system.
All content is recorded in pure text and provided with its own simplified markup language. This file format is therefore also called Org-mode. The content created with it (scientific articles, books) can be exported directly from Org-mode into various target formats without external converters and further processed for production for print and online. Org-mode is an alternative to Markdown; on GitHub, Readme files in Org-mode format are displayed like Markdown files.
The original author of Org-mode was Carsten Dominik began development in 2003. The project was led by Bastien Guerry from January 2011 to early 2013. With version 8.0 in April 2013, Bastien Guerry resigned as maintainer and Carsten Dominik took over the management of the project again. Org-mode was officially included for the first time in Emacs 22.
The main goal was to develop an editing mode (Major mode) for Emacs that would make it possible to enter notes for scientific work that are available as pure text, “organize” them (hence the name Org-mode) and at the same time combine them with features for project management.
The older Outline mode in Emacs seemed inadequate to Dominik for this because it was too focused on an outline with headings and did not support lists. In addition, the keyboard shortcuts seemed too difficult to remember. He imagined a user interface in which the commands could be cycled through. It should also be possible to restructure the structure of the notes.
The Org Mode screenshot source: Wikipedia; Author: Keysanger; License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
