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From: Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>
Subject: Re: The statement on what is orgmode.
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I describe Org-mode to people using something like: «Org-mode is a
very large box of LEGO bricks. What it does for you? It depends on
the bricks you use and how you combine them. It adopts to your
requirements.»

* Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> wrote:
>
> A slightly improved version in my view:
>
> * Org mode is useful for
> ** Organising projects, maintaining TODO lists and calendars
> ** Creating high quality formatted documents
> ** Keeping notes
> ** Literate programming

** Organizing your thoughts (might be redundant to above)
** Managing contacts[1]
** Managing references[2]
** Re-claim you data from the Cloud[3]
** ...

  1. http://julien.danjou.info/projects/emacs-packages#org-contacts
  2. http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/weblog/2012/03/23/how-to-manage-and-export-bibliographic-notesrefs-in-org-mode/
  3. https://github.com/novoid/Memacs
-- 
Karl Voit