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Also Vim user, and I've always been a little baffled by org-mode in general. There are several Neovim plugins that try to replicate it (either real org-mode com
by gipp 4y ago
Also Vim user, and I've always been a little baffled by org-mode in general. There are several Neovim plugins that try to replicate it (either real org-mode compatibility or just a spiritual association), and I've really struggled to understand what the use-case even is. It just seems like so much overhead to even grok org-mode, keep a sane and meaningful hierarchy of your ideas and keep it up-to-date... seems like a ton of work over just using your inbox and calendar as your "external mind". People constantly sing its praises and the advantages it brings but I've never seen it articulated what those actually are.
- margarina72 4y agoorg-mode is a markdown like language. In itself it doesn't have anything special. But the ecosystem of integration in emacs makes it a very rich experience. Both the UX of integration (seemless idea capture, outline manipulations etc.) and the breadth of application (email writing, gantt generation, accounting compute and reporting, RSS reading and sorting, slide presentations, agenda integration, time card reporting, invoice generation etc.) in combination it becomes a very hard to describe experience, precisely because it is so rich and varied while at the same time very streamlined because everything is text, and it all behave intuitively.