<story><title>Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text</title><url>http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CJefferson</author><text>Here were my &amp;quot;sunk costs&amp;quot; of org-mode.&lt;p&gt;1) org-mode makes a bad spreadsheet&lt;p&gt;2) No good Android interface, Orgzly is OK, but doesn&amp;#x27;t do advanced features and often crashed for me.&lt;p&gt;3) Despite lots of trying, I couldn&amp;#x27;t get &amp;quot;into&amp;quot; using the Emacs shortcut keys, which are different to every other application on Windows.&lt;p&gt;4) I like variable width fonts, and variable width fonts don&amp;#x27;t seem to work with various bits of org mode (for example tables)&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure you love org-mode, and that&amp;#x27;s great, but plenty of people over the years have tried and failed to love emacs, and lost a whole lot of time in the process.</text></item><item><author>madballster</author><text>I see a lot of comments arguing that it&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;worth it&amp;quot; to spend dozens of hours to &amp;quot;get into org-mode&amp;quot; when there are &amp;quot;intuitive tools&amp;quot; such as Evernote or Trello or Todoist etc.&lt;p&gt;What some are missing is the fact that low barriers to entry sometimes turn into barriers to growth at a later stage. After (!) one has sunk thousands of hours into them. I used to keep my academic notes in Evernote and it turned into hell after about 2,000 notes and a few years of work. I couldn&amp;#x27;t find things when I needed them, it didn&amp;#x27;t support a non-linear mode of work. It became my personal black hole that swallowed up information but never gave it back.&lt;p&gt;With org-mode I have created my very own filing and research system. After years of using it and thousands of articles I find things. Quickly. Now, with org-roam, I create hubs of knowledge and ideas that I can come back to at a later point without worrying about linearity or chronology. No longer do I need to know where things are. I know what ideas are in there. If I don&amp;#x27;t like a certain workflow, I can grow, develop or change my filing and note-taking system as I see fit.&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, org-mode eliminates the risk of hitting any sort of barrier after years of sunk costs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karlicoss</author><text>For 3 -- I&amp;#x27;ve always been a vim user, and I know maybe 3-4 native Emacs hotkeys, thanks to evil-mode. Also Spacemacs&amp;#x2F;Doom emacs provides a reasonable layer of bindings outside org-mode</text></comment>
<story><title>Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text</title><url>http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CJefferson</author><text>Here were my &amp;quot;sunk costs&amp;quot; of org-mode.&lt;p&gt;1) org-mode makes a bad spreadsheet&lt;p&gt;2) No good Android interface, Orgzly is OK, but doesn&amp;#x27;t do advanced features and often crashed for me.&lt;p&gt;3) Despite lots of trying, I couldn&amp;#x27;t get &amp;quot;into&amp;quot; using the Emacs shortcut keys, which are different to every other application on Windows.&lt;p&gt;4) I like variable width fonts, and variable width fonts don&amp;#x27;t seem to work with various bits of org mode (for example tables)&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure you love org-mode, and that&amp;#x27;s great, but plenty of people over the years have tried and failed to love emacs, and lost a whole lot of time in the process.</text></item><item><author>madballster</author><text>I see a lot of comments arguing that it&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;worth it&amp;quot; to spend dozens of hours to &amp;quot;get into org-mode&amp;quot; when there are &amp;quot;intuitive tools&amp;quot; such as Evernote or Trello or Todoist etc.&lt;p&gt;What some are missing is the fact that low barriers to entry sometimes turn into barriers to growth at a later stage. After (!) one has sunk thousands of hours into them. I used to keep my academic notes in Evernote and it turned into hell after about 2,000 notes and a few years of work. I couldn&amp;#x27;t find things when I needed them, it didn&amp;#x27;t support a non-linear mode of work. It became my personal black hole that swallowed up information but never gave it back.&lt;p&gt;With org-mode I have created my very own filing and research system. After years of using it and thousands of articles I find things. Quickly. Now, with org-roam, I create hubs of knowledge and ideas that I can come back to at a later point without worrying about linearity or chronology. No longer do I need to know where things are. I know what ideas are in there. If I don&amp;#x27;t like a certain workflow, I can grow, develop or change my filing and note-taking system as I see fit.&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, org-mode eliminates the risk of hitting any sort of barrier after years of sunk costs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bcrosby95</author><text>1) Is there any note taking application that makes a good spreadsheet?  Just use a dedicated spreadsheet program.&lt;p&gt;2) I&amp;#x27;m using Orgzly and yeah, it&amp;#x27;s OK.  For me, OK is all I really need here since I mostly need org-mode when I&amp;#x27;m infront of a computer.  When I&amp;#x27;m away all I really need it for is quickly adding things to do.&lt;p&gt;3) Definitely takes getting used to.  I started using org-mode a couple years ago as a vim user.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also lost a lot of time trying different apps such as Evernote, OneNote, and Trello.  And setting everything up to integrate between them.  Eventually I decided on markdown files for notes, but the TODO and tag integration of org-mode is what made me switch.</text></comment>