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moonlune wrote (edited )

org mode is a little more than a emacs specific markup language.

The key difference with other markup languages ones is that it's meant to be interactive, it's almost its own program ( I think the whole document is inside the REPL, so whatever you write gets executed). For example you can do spreadsheets and talbes, and have dates (like, if you write "next week", it'll automatically convert it to date+7) and an easy handling of tasks (write TODO and when you've done your task, it'll write DONE with the date and completion time, + task hierarchies).

It's very good for writing in documents with which you want to interact often, like for short note taking and as an agenda and todo list. I used it in a lab while doing experiments over several months and talking to my colleagues and it was quite handy for organizing my tasks and notes and pretty much everything.

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