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Getting Started With Org Mode

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What it is

Harry Schwartz gives a roughly hour-long tour of Emacs Org mode as an outliner, task manager, markup language and agenda tool. He demonstrates how he uses it for documents, presentations and todo lists.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a thorough introduction showing what Org mode can do for personal organization.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Org-mode is just a better version of plain text.”

    Org-mode as a better version of plain text.

    danShumway, 2018-07 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: How do you keep checklists?”

  2. “this is a nice how to (no relation to me)”

    A how-to for org-mode as a text file with agenda.

    AreYouElite, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)”

  3. “which is a great demonstration on Emacs and Org Mode's potential as an organizational tool.”

    Great demonstration of Org Mode's potential as an organizational tool.

    thr3ads, 2022-12 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Looking for a Programable Text Editor”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: org mode, emacs, task management, plain text, literate programming

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