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Comment by marstall | Hacker News Reader

cool design, what's org mode?

I recommend staying in the dark on this one: a few years ago I asked "what's org mode", and now my whole life is lived inside Emacs.

ha word to the wise, thanks !

The Last Personal Organizer You Will Need.

Seriously though. No TODO app has worked so well for so long for me.

The only problem is that it lives inside emacs. I have tried many times using org-mode but I have never succeeded because of Emacs. I guess it is an incredible editor but not for me. I wish there was a beautiful sublime like orgmode app for macos. Or a good vscode extension. I haven’t found yet.

Org mode is a text mode for the Emacs text editor. Just like you would expect Markdown files to be highlighted differently from Python files, Org mode displays certain text files in a certain way.

But that's the short side of it. Org mode has been refined for almost two decades to be the absolute best note manager, agenda, and organizer that you've ever seen. It simply keeps a low profile because it is not a GUI app - there is nothing to right-click on, or drag, or triple-click-with-control-then-swipe. People hate that!

A markdown-like syntax for todo lists, tables, and other things.

And an Emacs extension for easily navigating, editing, and searching these files.

(And an entire way of life, apparently.)

Technically it is true that it is a markup language but it is missing the essence of what makes Org-mode great. It is like saying that Stephen King is literate—it is true it is even indispensable for his work but it should not be the first thing we mention about him.

Org mode is the bicycle for your mind/the second brain/the whole life in a plain text.

An Emacs mode used to view/edit org markup https://orgmode.org

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