* Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> [2019-09-11 09:17]: > This reminds me of this: > https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2012/01/06/how-trello-is-different/ > > I just had a minor enlightenment why Org-mode is so successful (within > its niche, of course). It implements a bunch of very general data > structures - a tree, a table, a dictionary - and a few slightly more > specific - a clock table, TODOs/tags, markup...
Exactly, it is well integrated. The tree is extremely useful. And maybe it is popular because of... because of propaganda. There is the manual and few demonstrations and then people get the "Aha" moment sooner. THere are other hierarchical note editors. Org mode I have discovered very late and I remember using `hnb' the hierarchical notebook program that was written in curses, look here: http://hnb.sourceforge.net/Screen-shots/ since its inception. Yet such does not have good propaganda and it not implemented in the Emacs editor. There is also Cherrytree https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/ beautiul application for note taking, just missing few features from Org mode. Yet the beauty of it all is that Org mode has the simple text as its foundation and no special format. Jean
