For me it has 3 advantages: * Excellent outliner features, similar to those from OmniOutliner for example * Great support for tables (including mini spreadshe

For me it has 3 advantages: * Excellent outliner features, similar to those from OmniOutliner for example * Great support for tables (including mini spreadsheets), links, footnotes / citations, tags / keywords and timestamps * The ability to build interpreters that create views of one or several documents The last feature looks weird and exotic, but it is super useful. For example a kanban is just a view that displays e.g. ongoing tasks and forthcoming deadlines harvested from your org files. Actually, Emacs already has this feature implemented as the function org-agenda. But you can build other equivalent views.