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by sdwisely 1671 days ago
Sure, I started using (emacs) org-mode about a decade ago after deciding I wanted to get my notes out of Evernote. Obviously I wanted to avoid migrating again in the future, I wanted something as close as possible to plain text that wasn't in a SaaS.

org-mode happened to tick all the boxes while allowing me to:

* make links to lines from e-books I can click and go straight there

* refer to part of an email

* todo and agenda

* export in a easily to many formats to share with my coworkers or friends

* have some basic spreadsheet functionality (I don't really have need for an office suite)

* inline source code I can eval like a REPL, etc etc.

I probably could have used a handful of tools to get what I wanted, but org-mode offered all that and more. I expect I'll probably use it the rest of my life.

as for this particular project? I'm not a vim user, but it's nice to know that should I decide become one, I've got options.