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Yes, there's a great blog post that describes how this functionality is really helpful to manage your life as lots of little spreadsheets [1].

For me that's the true advantage of Org over Markdown. It has timestamps, spreadsheets and links with citations (e.g. a DOI link type). Plus the ability to get programmatic document views using org-agenda. I can manage my whole life in a really minimal and uncomplicated way.

Of course, you can develop a really fancy Org setup. But I think a minimal one, with these features and defaults is really good enough. Plus, not hard to learn.

[1] http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/spreadsheet.html




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