19 engineers on Hacker News describe using Org Mode first-hand: 13 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Been using an Org file containing all my projects as the tracker for each”
endorse · personal · skeledrew · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wouldn't crow about it like I do org or magit.”
endorse · personal · eamonnsullivan · 2025-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Unlike, say, org-mode or magit, which I'd happily evangelize.”
endorse · personal · kkylin · 2025-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have spent a long time studying and customizing Org-mode. I can say with absolute certainty that the net positive ROI from this effort is far greater”
endorse · personal · iLemming · 2024-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Org-mode is pretty cool and I love the note capturing feature”
endorse · personal · djhworld · 2020-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I considered myself a disorganized person for all my life until I started using Org-mode, but not anymore.”
endorse · personal · olivierestsage · 2020-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using org-mode for about a decade now... I don't think there was even a single thing that just stopped working under me during the upgrade.”
endorse · personal · 10 yr · TeMPOraL · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“org mode. vimwiki pales in comparison”
endorse · personal · knewter · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Org Mode - a recent addition, we've been using org mode to plan out dev sprints and story out features before putting them into PM software”
endorse · production · antjanus · 2017-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using org-mode for about ten years to document moment-to moment progress on tasks.”
endorse · personal · 10 yr · gavinpc · 2017-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for me that's org-mode; the things it does well are many, some of them unique in my experience”
endorse · personal · throwanem · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You have all the org-mode stuff, plus it's got a time stamp.”
endorse · personal · jonSson99 · 2016-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Emacs introduced me to ido-mode and org-mode.”
endorse · personal · Andrew-Dufresne · 2012-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wrote in org-mode, converted to docx and then sent off the copy.”
neutral · production · MarcScott · 2022-05-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to use Emacs org-mode. But now been using Plain Tasks [1] in Sublime 3.”
neutral · personal · taude · 2014-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a plain text table that I copied from my Org mode-powered personal wiki.”
neutral · personal · subsection1h · 2014-08-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using org-mode haphazardly for a few years, mostly for time tracking and organizing project notes and plans.”
neutral · personal · 3 yr · ams6110 · 2013-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it used to be .txt files somewhere on my hard drive, now it's in Org Mode.”
neutral · personal · TeMPOraL · 2011-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?