Well despite the website being ambiguous about Worg until finding the about page, I support the project. I just hope it isn't as obtuse in its actualy tutorials.
So many good words, but they all miss the crucial point: you can't write a parser for org-mode. So elisp interpreted is needed to run the lisp code that defines it. It means that org-mode can be good while you are using it from emacs, and it sucks for anything else.
I use markdown now, because you have a lot of tools to deal with markdown, while all tools for org-mode are bound to emacs. Which is perfectly fits the emacs philosophy of emacs being an operating system, but it is not for me. It was fun 20 years ago, but now when I'm thinking of tinkering with emacs configuration for hours to get anything done, I feel an impulse to run away.
I hope org-mode gets more popular outside of Emacs. I know all the words already about how org-mode is great because of Emacs, but the way you can do plaintext outlining, with great support for TODO's, in org-mode is fantastic. It retains a lot of readability, and that isn't Emacs specific: there are things that make org-mode great as-is!
A small todo application for mobile that uses org-mode as the database doesn't need to parse fancy org-babel stuff, except maybe that org-mode itself can be hard to parse.
Personally I'm hopeful that org-mode gets some more love outside of Emacs, so here's a list of interesting org-mode projects that aren't pandoc or Emacs related:
I was looking into org-mode after yet another system-collapse trying to manage everything in kanban (trello) + docs.
While it seemed like exactly what I needed, I was turned off by the
TUI. So I kept looking and found something that, instead of running in a terminal, was effectively a Chrome browser, enabling all the "luxuries" of modern web apps while living on my local system.
Org-moders were definitely the OGs, but it's 2026 and the TUI novelty nostalgia, recently in full swing thanks to Claude Code, will wear off.
I don't know elisp, emacs keybindings, org-mode details, etc.
But I have vibe-coded a note/task management system using it that's by far the best one I've ever used. It's very similar to Dynalist (but much more flexible). It has changed my life, honestly.
Even though I use emacs/org pretty much adversarily, it works almost flawlessly.
Also looks pretty good imo [0].
I can capture notes/tasks to my inbox: by selecting text anywhere on my computer and pressing a keybind, by using a dialog provided by another keybind, from Quicknotes on iPhone, and from a webpage I have set up in case I'm using a computer/phone that's not mine.
I rsync my org files to a Dropbox, which allows me to access them on iPhone using beorg app.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 25.2 ms ] threadI use markdown now, because you have a lot of tools to deal with markdown, while all tools for org-mode are bound to emacs. Which is perfectly fits the emacs philosophy of emacs being an operating system, but it is not for me. It was fun 20 years ago, but now when I'm thinking of tinkering with emacs configuration for hours to get anything done, I feel an impulse to run away.
If you need a new parser, the syntax specification is in https://orgmode.org/worg/org-syntax.html
A small todo application for mobile that uses org-mode as the database doesn't need to parse fancy org-babel stuff, except maybe that org-mode itself can be hard to parse.
Personally I'm hopeful that org-mode gets some more love outside of Emacs, so here's a list of interesting org-mode projects that aren't pandoc or Emacs related:
- https://github.com/RWejlgaard/org - https://nvim-orgmode.github.io/ - https://github.com/haxscramper/haxorg - github.com/cnglen/windancer - https://braintool.org/
While it seemed like exactly what I needed, I was turned off by the TUI. So I kept looking and found something that, instead of running in a terminal, was effectively a Chrome browser, enabling all the "luxuries" of modern web apps while living on my local system.
Org-moders were definitely the OGs, but it's 2026 and the TUI novelty nostalgia, recently in full swing thanks to Claude Code, will wear off.
Even though I use emacs/org pretty much adversarily, it works almost flawlessly. Also looks pretty good imo [0].
I can capture notes/tasks to my inbox: by selecting text anywhere on my computer and pressing a keybind, by using a dialog provided by another keybind, from Quicknotes on iPhone, and from a webpage I have set up in case I'm using a computer/phone that's not mine.
I rsync my org files to a Dropbox, which allows me to access them on iPhone using beorg app.
Thanks emacs/org community! S2
0: https://ibb.co/7xW1NbRh