I love Org mode and used it quite a lot for a few years.
I even wrote my thesis with it:
I stopped using Org and Emacs for a few reasons:
- tasks and notes management on mobile was always a bit of a pain (this is by far the largest reason)
- performance on Windows was never really that great (I have to use it at work)
- it’s a bit too time consuming, while I could tweak everything to my liking and I mean really everything. It was really worth the effort even though it was really nice to work in.
I already gave up on it before I’ve discovered Obsidian but it surely didn’t help.
The downside is now that I have to use multiple different tools instead of just a single one with a single interface.
And no I don’t think that it’s a case of a single tool for a single job.
I still think that something like Emacs with better mobile support and a more modern way to configure things would be the better tool.
In addition I think that the Org mode format would be far better to write than Markdown but that doesn’t help you if there aren’t any tools out there which support it.
Emacs was replace with:
- VS Code + emagit
- Todoist
- Obsidian + VS Code
- Google Docs
- iOS reminders + Tasks lists in Obsidian
- Probably something else which I forgot to mention
- Toggl for time tracking