The aim of this exporter to generate meeting minutes plain text that is convenient to send via email. - Unnecessary blank lines are removed from the final exported plain text. - Header decoration and section numbers done in the default ASCII exports is prevented. - Also TOC and author name are not exported. This is an ox-ascii derived backed for org exports. This backend effectively sets the `org-export-headline-levels' to 0 and, `org-export-with-section-numbers', `org-export-with-author' and `org-export-with-toc' to nil time being for the exports. That is equivalent to manually putting the below in the org file: #+options: H:0 num:nil author:nil toc:nil This package has been tested to work with the latest version of org built from the master branch ( http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git ) as of Aug 10 2016. EXAMPLE ORG FILE: #+title: My notes * Heading 1 ** Sub heading *** More nesting - List item 1 - List item 2 - List item 3 * Heading 2 ** Sub heading - List item 1 - List item 2 - List item 3 *** More nesting MINUTES EXPORT: __________ MY NOTES __________ * Heading 1 + Sub heading - More nesting - List item 1 - List item 2 - List item 3 * Heading 2 + Sub heading - List item 1 - List item 2 - List item 3 - More nesting REQUIREMENTS: - Emacs 24 is required at minimum for lexical binding support. - Emacs 24.4 is required as ox-ascii got added to org-mode in that Emacs release.