Combined with dropbox or some other remote storage and sync tool across multiple devices, this works wonders. There is an org-mode app for mobile devices as well. Of course people who dislike emacs might have a problem but it's quite hackable and there is nothing to keep one from associated .org files with emacs and using emacs just for todo lists (theres only about 5 or 8 commands in org-mode that you really have to know to be effective).

I have always fancied learning org-mode, but I have had trouble finding a guide which doesn't assume I already know emacs. Do you have any suggestions?

There are a couple links below but http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org4beginners.html is also pretty good.

I had problems with conflicting files in dropbox / google drive so I just have a single directory with all of my org files in it versioned with a private Github repo.

For private stuff I just use the :crypt: keyword org extension to encrypt that entry with my GPG key...

What's the accepted most mature Vim equivalent or clone for org mode? Is there any?

To make use of org-mode but use the familiar vim keybindings, I just use emacs with evil-mode, the vim emulation mode. It works great. I've searched for a vim-centered alternative to org-mode for a long time; this is the best way I've found.

Thanks, so much. I might be in touch with you about this when I get around to trying it out.

I've used https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode for a while now for managing documentation written with org-mode. It gets the job done, but if my project's docs weren't written in org-mode already, I'd just use markdown.

vimoutliner (https://github.com/vimoutliner/vimoutliner) is also terribly mature and appropriate for a lot of tasks one might use Org mode for - certainly worth a look.

I was an org-mode user. Then I lost emacs config file, and started using Sublime Text. I'm now a happy user of the PlainTasks plug-in.

https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks

There's also an org-mode plugin for Sublime Text: https://github.com/danielmagnussons/orgmode

this is the nicest looking task manager ever!

There was a reddit thread asking to share org-mode workflow, maybe you can give some details on your ways.

http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1u52eu/can_people_sha...

I don't have an reddit account at the moment, but http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html influenced my org-mode workflow heavily.

This was mentioned already, and probably one of the most famous and exhaustive org-mode practical tutorial.

I have a hard time using Org mode , more than I used to, because I've realised that it encourages a lot of subdivisions, and deep trees only serve to confuse my mind ( see http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/03/trees-treeviews-and...)

What are you using instead?

I just use a markdown file now, with lists and headers/subheaders. I've found that when restricted to three levels, you don't really need more.

What's the most compatible or highest parity implementation for Vim?

Don't be afraid to use emacs just for orgmode. It's worth it.

I think I'll really consider this. Which EMacs should I install for this purpose?

On Windows I'm using emacs from http://gnu.mirror.vexxhost.com/emacs/windows/

On Ubuntu I'm using this ppa : https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs

To have the latest orgmode version I use the `org-plus-contrib` package from : http://orgmode.org/elpa.html I'm not sure if you need to delete `lisp\org` first (orgmode is included with emacs).

I think you can also use git to keep orgmode up-to-date.

How about with Arch?

I don't know much about Arch.

Latest emacs version is 24.3 so maybe https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/emacs/

Also, are the keybindings configurable so as to be coherent with Vim's?

I have no idea but maybe you could use one of the following package:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ViperMode

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil

Do these affect the commands used by orgmode?