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by philsnow 3134 days ago
The tripping block that always gets me out of the emacs flow is integrating org-mode with things my co-workers use to communicate (lately that's and Asana, Jira, and Quip, tomorrow who knows, it's hard for me to dictate choice of issue trackers or wiki based on what integrates with my admittedly nutso setup).

Even if I were to get everything working, then if I were to ever switch jobs suddenly I'm back at square one again.

Emacs and org-mode are perfect, _if_ you don't have to collaborate with anybody.

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I once shared an office with another happy user of Emacs and org-mode. We did a small project together and used an org file to manage the project tasks inside the source repo. Even that did not work out so well, because I would also see his tasks on my agenda. I guess this could be improved with tags and filters, but my point is that collaboration with org-mode is difficult beyond the issue of agreeing on the same tool to use.
For about two years I was the lone emacs user in a .NET shop where all the other developers used Visual Studio.