I use it to track my to-do lists at work and take assorted notes.
It provides all the features you would expect from in-depth TODO apps, like arbitrarily-deep task hierarchies, customizeable task statuses, due dates (and recurring due dates), and hyperlinks to other items. Doing that kind of thing is quite easy. But then you can go far beyond that.
I use it to track my time, and a few key strokes gets me a report of how I spent all my time last week. You can also easily track events and look at your agenda for the day, with all appointments shown alongside your deadlines, and then look at the same report for another day in the past/future. This is much better than trying to cross-reference Outlook with a ticketing system to see what's on your plate for a given day.
Some other miscellaneous useful features:
* Support for tables right in the text file (it formats the rows/columns automatically) with Excel-style formula support
* Assuming you do your other work in Emacs, if you're coding and somebody asks you to do something for you, you can do a single key-command to instantly enter a sub-menu that helps you create new TODO items via customizeable templates, and jump right back to where you left off when you finish that
* It supports syntax-highlighted code blocks that you can execute inside the Org file and show the output alongside the code
* Many other reports can be generated, i.e. show me all unfinished TODO items with a certain combination of tags
IMO if you're using Emacs, learning to use Org is a no-brainer, and if you're using Vim, switching to Emacs + Evil just for Org is definitely worth considering.
It provides all the features you would expect from in-depth TODO apps, like arbitrarily-deep task hierarchies, customizeable task statuses, due dates (and recurring due dates), and hyperlinks to other items. Doing that kind of thing is quite easy. But then you can go far beyond that.
I use it to track my time, and a few key strokes gets me a report of how I spent all my time last week. You can also easily track events and look at your agenda for the day, with all appointments shown alongside your deadlines, and then look at the same report for another day in the past/future. This is much better than trying to cross-reference Outlook with a ticketing system to see what's on your plate for a given day.
Some other miscellaneous useful features:
* Support for tables right in the text file (it formats the rows/columns automatically) with Excel-style formula support
* Assuming you do your other work in Emacs, if you're coding and somebody asks you to do something for you, you can do a single key-command to instantly enter a sub-menu that helps you create new TODO items via customizeable templates, and jump right back to where you left off when you finish that
* It supports syntax-highlighted code blocks that you can execute inside the Org file and show the output alongside the code
* Many other reports can be generated, i.e. show me all unfinished TODO items with a certain combination of tags
IMO if you're using Emacs, learning to use Org is a no-brainer, and if you're using Vim, switching to Emacs + Evil just for Org is definitely worth considering.