I can see why you might not have made it to the end - I get tunnel-vision when writing sometimes. That's the edited down version! I think there's a lot of mile

I can see why you might not have made it to the end - I get tunnel-vision when writing sometimes. That's the edited down version! I think there's a lot of mileage left in the emacs + org-mode for productivity discussion, so I can completely see where you're coming from. I won't repeat what I said in the post here, but I'll just reiterate this HN comment[0] from 2 month's back where a frequent user of org-mode complained about backwards-compatibility. And this isn't an isolated case, the devs are apparently forging ahead with the simplification of org-mode at the expense of a few compatibility issues. I don't suppose users of the basic functionality would notice, but then do those users need all the potential complexity of org-mode? I'll also reiterate that, as per the citations in the post, even RMS can't bring himself to broach the org-mode subject. At least as of 2013. It probably boils down to there being two camps, those who make full use of org-mode's features and who enjoy delving into the minutae of configuring their productivity suites (most likely already emacs users?). And then there are those who can run their affairs from a paper diary (or who have help), 80s style, but prefer going digital for all the advantages that brings. I might be wrong, but I get the strong impression from seeing others use it that org-mode lets you, even encourages you to operate a system that holds hundreds of to-do's at any one time. To just get your thoughts into it, however relevant. I've used systems like that before and I didn't like the growing stress resulting from the pile-up. The final thing I'd say is that as one of the world's vim users (is it a 50/50 split vim:emacs?) I just can't bring myself to embrace the chorded keymappings of emacs. I'd rather learn piano. It'd sure sound nicer. -- [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10636589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10636589