Planner is a free personal information manager for

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It helps keep track of schedules, daily notes, days to remember etc. and takes advantage of the ease of keyboard shortcuts that Emacs provides for fast access to all data. One of the main advantages of Planner is that it stores all data as hyperlinked plain

text file A text file (sometimes spelled textfile; an old alternative name is flatfile) is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of electronic text. A text file exists stored as data within a computer file system. In operating ...

s which enables users to use planner data in a variety of ways. One of them is publishing your planner data to an

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page. Planner was originally written by John Wiegley, who wrote many other extensions during the years, including Alert, a

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-style workalike system for Emacs. Planner was very popular within the Emacs community at first, but has been surpassed by the

org-mode Org Mode (also: ''org-mode''; ) is a document editing, formatting, and organizing mode, designed for notes, planning, and authoring within the free software text editor Emacs. The name is used to encompass plain text files ("org files") that incl ...

package with time. Planner is released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.

References

External links

PlannerMode page on EmacsWiki
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