[my original post from 25th Aug 2005]
I’m astounded about the difference that emacs org mode has made for me.
I put this down to the following:
1 – it’s always there when I have my laptop open (that tends to be all day in work and most of the time at home);
2 – it is incredibly versatile and powerfull;
I have probably used my lists 10 times more since the weekend than I ever did when they were on my PDA. In work, I find myself constantly checking it after completing something, and adding things that previously I would have written on a post-it and stuck in my PDA case so that I could add it to my PDA that evening.
Some parts of org-mode are a revelation – I love being able to stick something in the Waiting list and do ^C-. to add todays date so I know when I started the clock, and to be able to archive a sub-thread to a separate file.
I am still learning and need to read the manual again, but at the moment I’m glad I bit the bullet and moved to emacs for this.