org-mode.org

what is org-mode ?

• It is a mode within emacs that started its life as an outliner .
• org mode is usually used as a markup language to write notes ,to do lists , and much more.
• It is an example of an exocortex , which is something to rely on other than your brain to remember things.

org-mode features

• Easy outlining with tab folding to maximize focus on the task.
• Task management & to-do lists with different states
• t to cycle through the different states of the list item.

To do lists must be headers

task uno

2nd task

3rd task

Progress indicators [2/3]

barber

walk dog

launch

Percentage indicators [75%]

wash car

cook dinner

run

shower

Markup

Text Transformations

• italic text
• bold text
• verbatim
• stroke through text

Meta Data

• Title

  #+TITLE: A Quick Introduction to Org-mode

• Options to [disable/enable] features.

  #+OPTIONS: num:nil toc:t

  #+AUTHOR: Ryan Leulmi

Links [[address][description]]

• C-c + C-l to create a link automatically
• HTTP links my github
• Local Links to files / todos / files / etc.. dotspacemacs
• C-c + C-o to open a local link in a new buffer

Source Code

• <s + tab to create a code block
• C-c + ' to open a code block in a new buffer with it’s mode
• C-c + C-c to evaluate a code block with its compiler
• LateX + Math integration

export PATH="`yarn global bin`:$PATH"

Raw HTML export

#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
<h3> RAW HTML </h3>
#+END_EXPORT

Smarter Tables

• org mode tables are smart spread sheets

Student #	Email	Password
ryan	ryanleulmi@gmail.com	1234
student	another one	asd21

Export to other formats from the same source

• C-c + C-e
• twitter bootstrap ox-twbs
• html , pdf , markdown ox-gfm
• org-export-backends to manage your export backends.
• org-file-apps to change which apps your export backends use.

Literate programming

• C-c + C-c to evaluate a code block with its compiler
• Evaluate all the code blocks in an org file