Org mode is outliner with some advanced features. Those features depend on what you want to use and they range from time tracking, through cross-linking and ref

Org mode is outliner with some advanced features. Those features depend on what you want to use and they range from time tracking, through cross-linking and reference tracking, inline code execution up to spreadsheet (and it's nice Excel-for-programmers kind of spreadsheet, not a stub). Browsing headlines should give you idea what features are there: http://orgmode.org/manual/index.html#toc_Tables http://orgmode.org/manual/index.html#toc_Tables