This article is a bit long and waxes too philosophical for my tastes. But, from the author's screenshots, he spent a lot of time customizing it to do exactly wh

This article is a bit long and waxes too philosophical for my tastes. But, from the author's screenshots, he spent a lot of time customizing it to do exactly what he needs — and that's great. org-mode is awesome because it can be whatever you want it to be. I didn't write a single line of Elisp to customize it (except for a few small keybinding tweaks in my .emacs.d/init.el file). Even so, it serves perfectly as my personal, simple task list. I also share org-mode files, through Dropbox, with other people, and it works beautifully as a project documentation system, a shared task list, and a bug tracker. It saves a lot of time and trouble: no third-party paid services (other than Dropbox), almost no learning curve, no maintenance, no user management overhead, no vendor lock-in, and no proprietary file formats.