Talk:Org-mode

Additions of Org-Mode exporters
There are many ox-format.el-type extensions of Org-Mode which can export to a different number of formats. One of the ways of finding those is through a google search. To the readers of this page, please comment here on which ones you found interesting, and perhaps let's discuss the addition of those to the Org-mode wikipage 188.26.48.129 (talk) 01:32, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

More additions related to scientific papers mentioning Org-Mode
There seems to be a great deal of papers out there mentioning Org-Mode as being a great tool for writing scientific papers. This is a good opportunity to add more details about that to the org-mode wiki page.

Ad copy
Some segments are pure ad copy. This sentence: "The full feature set is both broad and deep, easy to access, but unobtrusive." adds no information, and is popular boilerplate used to describe all sorts of systems. Such comments appear a few times.

I recommend adding this sentence: "Org-mode uses plain text files edited via emacs, and therefore anything that can be done in a text file or emacs can be done in org-mode." After adding this sentence, about a dozen others can be cut: platforms emacs runs on, that there are easy interfaces for emacs variable setting, that UTF-8 is an option, that plain text can be searched via grep, that you can save sets of text files on dropbox, ... Removing praise for plain text would clarify the contribution of Org-mode itself to the plain text + emacs ecosystem.

Also, maybe mention that there are alternatives, such as https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode. — Preceding unsigned comment added by B k (talk • contribs) 12:30, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

.org format files
A new page on .org format files, and what makes them different from .txt and friends, might be useful. Robbiemorrison (talk) 09:53, 5 November 2010 (UTC)


 * This is probably a good idea, but maybe will end up being a replica of the Org-Manual ? Don't you think ?

"Org-mode can also be used to edit outlines in non-.org files." -- what does this mean? Outlines having the org-mode format, but not having the .org extension? 24.11.115.178 (talk) 02:24, 24 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Maybe he's refering to .org files that can be exported to non-org files ? 5.12.244.197 (talk) 16:55, 5 April 2015 (UTC)


 * This means that Org-Mode functionality can be used in other text files, if it is provided with symbols (regexps, to be clear) which would be treated as headlines. Usually comment lines are used for this. This makes Org-Mode a different kind of package for folding source code. But it's not limited to source code. A13ph (talk) 05:52, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

A sample of a simple .org file would be nice
The page today doesn't have a complete .org file, only lists some of the features, but not necessarily how they might be used. I think it would be valuable to have a structured outline text too, so people at-a-glance can see what org-mode looks like:

* This is a heading Here is some *bold* text and - this - is - a list ** A subheading With some text. Lorum ipsum dolor sit amet. *** And a third level heading Lorum ipsum dolor sit amet. ** The second subheading Lorum ipsum dolor sit amet.

Maybe another sample which took the org file in a completely different direction, e.g. a TODO list with lots of PROGRESS and DONE tasks? Or something completely different? Mogsie (talk) 09:25, 27 June 2013 (UTC)


 * This is a good idea, however there are a lot of features to showcase. Will this sample be able to represent Org-Mode in terms of features? I think you would only be able to capture the .org file format through this sample, whereas there is a lot more to say about how the user can interact with the file format. 5.12.244.197 (talk) 16:54, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Org-Mode distributed issue tracking (via merge tool)
It's mentioned in the article that distributed issue tracking is possible via distributed version control. In relation to this I'd like to mention that there's also git-merge-tool that can be used to merge org files. Has someone tried this ? Is it worth mentioning in the article ? 5.12.244.197 (talk) 05:44, 5 April 2015 (UTC)