Neorg - An Organized Future

Your New Life Organization Tool - All in Lua

Summary • Tutorial • Installation • Setup • Usage
Modules • Roadmap • Philosophy • FAQ

Neorg (Neo - new, org - organization) is a Neovim plugin designed to reimagine organization as you know it. Grab some coffee, start writing some notes, let your editor handle the rest.

Neorg is an all-encompassing tool based around structured note taking, project and task management, time tracking, slideshows, writing typeset documents and much more. The premise is that all of these features are built on top of a single base file format (.norg), which the user only has to learn once to gain access to all of Neorg's functionality.

Not only does this yield a low barrier for entry for new users it also ensures that all features are integrated with each other and speak the same underlying language. The file format is built to be expressive and easy to parse, which also makes .norg files easily usable anywhere outside of Neorg itself.

A good way of thinking about Neorg is as a plaintext environment which can be adapted to a variety of use cases. If a problem can be represented using raw text, it can be solved using Neorg.

A video tutorial may be found on Youtube:

Neorg's setup process is slightly more complex than average, so we encourage you to be patient :)

After you're done with the installation process, run :checkhealth neorg to see if everything's correct!

The recommended installation method is via rocks.nvim.

In order to install Neorg via lazy.nvim, you must take a few extra steps - this is because luarocks is a critical component for Neorg to function. See this blog for more information.

Neorg can be installed purely via luarocks on packer, pulling in all required dependencies in the process.

It is not recommended to use packer as it is now unmaintained.

use {
  "nvim-neorg/neorg",
  rocks = { "lua-utils.nvim", "nvim-nio", "nui.nvim", "plenary.nvim" },
  tag = "*", -- Pin Neorg to the latest stable release
  config = function()
      require("neorg").setup()
  end,
}

Because of the complexities of luarocks we are choosing not to supported other plugin managers for the time being. It is actively on our TODO list, however!

After you have installed Neorg, we recommend you head over to either the Youtube tutorial series or to the wiki!

Massive shoutouts go to all the contributors actively working on the project together to form a fantastic integrated workflow:

• mrossinek - for basically being my second brain when it comes to developing new features and adding new syntax elements
• danymat - for creating the excellent foundations for the up and coming GTD system

And an extra thank you to:

• Binx - for making that gorgeous logo for free!
• bandithedoge - for converting the PNG version of the logo into SVG form

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