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Org is not a note taking system. It’s an emacs app that can do a lot and that you can use and tweak as you want. Note taking, todo list, calendar, scientific notebook, literate programming, bibliography, ... It allows to mix static (what you insert) and dynamic (code execution, graph generation, tables, images, spreadsheets).

The author logged how he customized his setup to do whatever he needed and shared it. I found great tips there.

I fail to understand the negativity in the comments for such hacker friendly system and submission.



> I fail to understand the negativity in the comments for such hacker friendly system and submission.

One would have thought that a programmable editor (using LISP, no less) would be held in high regard by the majority of people on here.

Just goes to show that you can't please all of the people all of the time.


> Just goes to show that you can't please all of the people all of the time.

Maybe these people are hackers who hack as-in "hacksaw", to punch a hole quickly. There is no sense of urgency in the french synonyms etymology.




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