org-mode

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Org mode can export to every format I ever needed (LaTeX, html, pdf). I once even had the resulting HTML conversion contain animations written in Javascript”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-06

• “doom emacs with evil (vim keybindings) and org-mode is the absolute killer app”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-20

• “I can't find any feature of any TODO application that Org mode doesn't do better”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-18

• “I even maintain billing spreadsheets for a side business as Org-Mode tables.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-18

• “I use Org-mode for a bunch of things that may sound absolutely unrelated - I consume HN, Reddit, Jira, GitHub, Slack and other content in org-mode derived buffers. Why? Again, because of bunch of APIs, functions and commands that Org provides.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “between org-mode and the 70 other features that I've come to know and love”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “that's where something like org-mode and Emacs inch ahead because it's FOSS”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “Org-mode is soooo much more practical. imenu works great, sparse-trees are awesome, you can edit pretty much any part¹ in an indirect buffer and all.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-13

• “unholy combination of org-mode & some workflow to create a beautiful LaTeX file, and I couldn't tell you how to recompile it”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-13

• “Org-mode helps me keep my thoughts in order in English and interlineate code in with them, then mash a key to spit out compilable source”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-10

• “I strongly prefer org-mode to markdown. I find that with org-mode and extensions (such as in-line elisp) I have a _significantly_ more powerful system”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-09

• “I used to do them in Org-mode, then export to Sheets. I still have all those assignments sitting on my disk.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-08

• “org-mode (a notetaking tool that can export to a variety of formats) with embedded rendered latex equations makes it really easy to take notes and write things up in a plaintext format without needing to export every 30 seconds to view equations”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-29

• “I actually have similar frustrations with emacs org-mode. I get paralyzed by tree-structure decisions and I'm realizing that a tree structure is just not what I want.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-07

• “I tried using org-mode instead of Markdown once, not for long.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-04

• “dump it all into an Org-mode buffer with massive data and then reduce it into a sparse tree where the entire document is folded as much as possible, but the selected information is made visible.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-27

• “use Emacs as a glorified Org-mode agenda keeper. It's been heavenly”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-10

• “I write programs in org-mode all the time. Literally (no pun intended) all my libraries, outside of those written for a day job, are written in Org.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-08

• “I've never quite got my use of org-mode over the activation hump to really stick for the long term. Every time I leave it and come back to it I have to relearn a lot of it from scratch because there doesn't seem to be any sort of intuitive framework I can hang it all off.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-23

• “Org mode is easier to read in plain text editors. I especially like the use of dashes for lists”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-23

• “I use org-mode for pretty much everything, which has all of these features I think”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-19

• “I use Emacs/org-mode to do the same and much more, without tying myself to specific third parties”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-18

• “I've got Org-mode, calendar, Org-journal, desktop chromium, ETC. all on my phone.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-10

• “Org-mode has been extremely helpful in general for collecting my scatterbrained thoughts.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-02-07

• “I have since turned my LLM usage to gptel inside org-mode buffers”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-29