Sure, I started using (emacs) org-mode about a decade ago after deciding I wanted to get my notes out of Evernote. Obviously I wanted to avoid migrating again in the future, I wanted something as close as possible to plain text that wasn't in a SaaS.
org-mode happened to tick all the boxes while allowing me to:
* make links to lines from e-books I can click and go straight there
* refer to part of an email
* todo and agenda
* export in a easily to many formats to share with my coworkers or friends
* have some basic spreadsheet functionality (I don't really have need for an office suite)
* inline source code I can eval like a REPL, etc etc.
I probably could have used a handful of tools to get what I wanted, but org-mode offered all that and more. I expect I'll probably use it the rest of my life.
as for this particular project? I'm not a vim user, but it's nice to know that should I decide become one, I've got options.
funnily enough it's something I've been working on for my personal dotfile setup but instead unfortunately decided to go with ansible for now despite being a big fan of both nix and nixos. Nix was just a bit too heavy for some of the small lxc containers etc I wanted to setup.
> Qt is lovely but the company that controls it is in a bad place financially and it's not clear what will become of Qt if they go under.
this part has always been clear:
"Should The Qt Company discontinue the development of the Qt Free Edition under the required licenses, then the Foundation has the right to release Qt under a BSD-style license or under other open source licenses. The agreements stay valid in case of a buy-out, a merger or bankruptcy."
org-mode is great tool for emacs as an environment. If the idea of having such a tool so close so tied into how you're working then it's the best tool I know of.
If you just want a markdown-ish outliner you can probably get that workflow elsewhere.
Nobody is lamenting the loss of the edge engine. Things like choice of video codec, drm module, etc have shown is it's a good thing to have a few different vendors with a seat at the table for standards.
org-mode happened to tick all the boxes while allowing me to:
* make links to lines from e-books I can click and go straight there
* refer to part of an email
* todo and agenda
* export in a easily to many formats to share with my coworkers or friends
* have some basic spreadsheet functionality (I don't really have need for an office suite)
* inline source code I can eval like a REPL, etc etc.
I probably could have used a handful of tools to get what I wanted, but org-mode offered all that and more. I expect I'll probably use it the rest of my life.
as for this particular project? I'm not a vim user, but it's nice to know that should I decide become one, I've got options.