#+TITLE:     Emacs organizers: Org and Planner
#+AUTHOR:    Bastien Guerry
#+EMAIL:     bzg AT altern DOT org
#+LANGUAGE:  fr
#+LINK: guerry http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/%s

* Planner and Org

Please feel free to /fix/ and /comment/ this table. You can download the
source [[http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/u/emacs-planner-org.org][from here]], or request it by sending me an [[mailto:bzgNOSPAM@altern.org][e-mail]].

** Overview

| Feature                   | planner-mode      | org-mode                             |
|---------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------|
| outline structure         | yes (allout-mode) | native (outline-mode)                |
| interact with [[http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/RememberMode][remember.el]] | yes               | native                               |
| primary usage viewpoint   | daypages          | pages handling one or more projects  |
| allow multiple projects   | yes               | yes                                  |
| allow project overview    | yes               | yes                                  |
| GTD implementation        | [[http://genehack.org/2004/09/21][Example]], [[http://swik.net/planner.el%2Bgtd][more]]     | yes ([[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.html][GTD+ORG]])                        |
| infile elisp evaluation   | yes               | yes ([[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Dynamic-blocks][dynamic blocks]])                 |
| content encryption        | ?                 | yes (org-crypt.el)                   |
| search facilities         | ?                 | org-occur, org-occur-in-agenda-files |

#| add-ons                   | lots -- browse the planner/ directory | org-publish, org-mouse, org-toc, org-registry, org-blog, blorg, org-nnml, org-mairix, org-crypt |

** Tasks handling

| Feature                    | planner-mode | org-mode            |
|----------------------------+--------------+---------------------|
| calendar/diary/appt        | native       | native              |
| time reports               | yes          | [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Clocking-work-time][yes]]                 |
| add tags to tasks          | ?            | yes (see [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Tags][doc]])       |
| add TODO keywords to tasks | ?            | yes ([[http://orgmode.org/org.html#TODO-items][TODO keywords]]) |
| dynamic agenda views       | ?            | [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Agenda-views][yes]] ([[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Custom-agenda-views][customizable]])  |
| sorting tasks              | ?            | org-sort            |
| logging state changes      | ?            | yes ([[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Tracking-TODO-state-changes][TODO states]])   |

** Export & Publish

| Feature              | planner-mode                      | org-mode                            |
|----------------------+-----------------------------------+-------------------------------------|
| export formats       | lots -- see [[http://mwolson.org/projects/EmacsMuse.html][muse]] [[http://mwolson.org/static/doc/muse.html#Publishing-Styles][documentation]].   | [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#HTML-export][HTML]], [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#ASCII-export][ASCII]], [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#XOXO-export][XOXO]], [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#LaTeX-export][LaTeX]], [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#iCalendar-export][iCalendar]] |
| embedded LaTeX       | <latex>$a^b$</latex>              | $a^$ ([[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Embedded-LaTeX][doc]])                          |
| infile LaTeX preview | no                                | [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#LaTeX-fragments][yes]]                                 |
| RSS support          | RSS 1.0, 2.0                      | Not yet                             |
| use it as a wiki     | native                            | Emulated through simple file links  |
| table editing        | orgtbl-mode, table.el             | orgtbl-mode, table.el               |
| HTML-only parts      | <literal style="html"></literal>  | [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Quoting-HTML-tags][#+HTML, #+BEGIN_HTML]]                |
| LaTeX-only parts     | <literal style="latex"></literal> | [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Quoting-LaTeX-code][#+LaTeX, #+BEGIN_LaTeX]]              |
   
** Links handling

| Feature            | planner-mode                                                                                                            | org-mode                                                            |
|--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------|
| mailers link types | Gnus VM WL MH Rmail                                                                                                     | Gnus VM WL MH Rmail Mew                                             |
| other link types   | http  ftp mailto info file man woman google gopher telnet wais dict doi news snews (extensible, see muse-url-protocols) | http ftp mailto news file bbdb shell elisp w3 w3m info ([[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Adding-hyperlink-types][extensible]]) |

** Project activity

| maintainer           | John Sullivan                     | Carsten Dominik                            |
| homepage             | http://wjsullivan.net/PlannerMode | [[http://orgmode.org/]]                        |
| XEmacs/Emacs compat. | perfect                           | perfect                                    |
| modularity           | 100%                              | one single file (org.el) and a few add-ons |
| documentation        | [[http://wjsullivan.net/static/doc/planner/html_node/index.html][HTML]], [[http://wjsullivan.net/static/doc/planner/planner-el.pdf][PDF]], [[http://wjsullivan.net/static/doc/planner/planner-el.texi.tar.gz][Texinfo]]                | [[http://orgmode.org/org.html][HTML]], [[http://orgmode.org/org.pdf][PDF]], [[Http://orgmode.org/org.texi][Texinfo]]                         |
| page on [[http://www.emacswiki.org/][EmacsWiki]]    | [[http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerMode][PlannerMode]]                       | [[http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/OrgMode][OrgMode]]                                    |
| mailing list         | [[https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/planner-el-discuss][active]]                            | [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode][very active]] (also on [[http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode][Gmane]])                |

# * Your story here

# Please [[mailto:bzgNOSPAM@altern.org][report]] any successful use of Planner, Org or both. I'll list the
# story here.

# * Not sure this should belong to the list:

#| load individ. feature     | yes                          | no                                            |
#| revision control integr. | Xtla and psvn                | none                                                |

# Waiting for explanation on this:

#| escape specials @ publish | yes           | no  |
#| update same task, >1 pg.  | yes           | no  |
#| infile time manipulation  | what is that? | yes |

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