---
title: Getting Started With Org Mode
teaser: From the Boston Emacs Meetup, Harry Schwartz demonstrates some of the nifty
  features of Org mode.
tags: emacs,boston
author: Thom Obarski
published_on: 2017-01-16
---

From the March 2016 [Boston Emacs
Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Emacs-Meetup/), [Harry
Schwartz](https://github.com/hrs) demonstrates some of the nifty features of Org
mode:

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> Org mode is an outliner, markup language, task manager, calendar, contact
manager, and who-knows-what-else. I use it to write documents and presentations,
manage my todo list, and I even write my Emacs configuration in it.
>
> In other words, Org is taking over my life.
>
> I’ll be introducing some of the functionality of Org, demonstrating what it
can do, and showing how you, too, can become pleasantly obsessed with a wacky,
overgrown outlining tool.

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