| Org Mode is a dayplanner/TODO list + time tracker + notetaking app + spreadsheet + interactive notebook (Jupyter style) + literate programming tool + publishing platform, all glued into one. It stores all its data in plaintext files that are actually human-readable, and is built on one of the most flexible software platforms that ever existed - Emacs. The awesomeness of Org Mode comes from how all the little pieces come together to support each other, and how the incremental the learning curve is. You can use any subset of features you like, and you don't pay (in terms of noise in your files) for the features you don't need. When you start, it's just a Markdown with superb editor support. Step by step, you may eventually find yourself organizing your life in plain text. As the documentation says, Org is a toolbox[0]. You use only what you need, but you can do a lot with it, and everything interoperates to create a whole much greater than the sum of parts (which ordinarily would each be a different application). This is a common theme for Emacs itself too, and the reason some people (myself included) increasingly live in it - there are great benefits coming with thorough interoperability, as every small new thing you learn or add improves almost every kind of task you do in Emacs (org mode included). As for introductions, there are things that'll show up under "introduction to org mode" search query. I guess you could read[1] to get an overview, play around, and then see what interests you. There's plenty of demonstrations and guides for specific use cases of Org Mode on-line[2], and you can always ask Org users to share their workflow (and config files) :). -- [0] - https://orgmode.org/manual/Summary.html#Summary [1] - https://orgmode.org/orgguide.pdf [2] - Some listed here: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/. |