Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (2018)

> Org-Mode Makes Sense Outside of Emacs ... goes on to name one tool (pandoc) that parses Org-Mode (and also parses Markdown. I would in fact guess pandoc is used much more often for the latter than the former). > Org-Mode Has Excellent Tool Support > this is not an article about Emacs ... goes on to describe the "tool support" in Emacs. Sorry, but the paragraph title here really implies we're going to be talking about a range of…

I discovered and started using org-mode (and, as a result, Emacs) when I migrated from Evernote in '16. Today I use it for all my project, task and knowledge management needs, with some files going over 15MB in size. And I'm still loving it. Started out with headers only, and every time I wanted something more, it was always just there for the taking. Easy to use, and also crazy powerful. Can't think of anything else that exhibits both those…

Fairly long-time Emacser/Lisper here. Personally I've never bothered mastering org-mode; using Emacs has never been a goal in itself for me. In practice, org-mode in a team context barely scales because: * it's a practically unparseable language: all interop libs (like those found for Clojure, Ruby, Haskell, etc) seem to have severe limitations parsing/emitting org-mode. * Related to the previous point, it means one can't create .org files automatedly, from a CI pipeline. This makes it hard to have documentation…