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I watched the Org-Mode Google Tech Talk video recently. It helped me to understand more of what Org-Mode was about. I thought I'd share some likes and dislikes concerning Org-Mode.

Like:

• Different agenda views. Very nicely done.
• Folding the entire structure of the document to make a "Table of Contents" of sorts.
• Colorized "TODO"/"DONE"/"WAITING" keywords.
• Generating an HTML table from an Org table that is embedded in a comment.
• Auto-realigning tables after hitting TAB.

Dislike:

• Meta+(left arrow, right arrow) key bindings. I use this all the time for navigating around documents in modes other than Org, and it annoys me that Org mode uses this to manipulate heading levels. This is easy enough to work around, with a few well-placed define-key statements.
• Focus on tables. Now that I'm out of college, I have no use for tabular data. Then again, the taylor + Calc example in the video was amazing.

Open questions:

• How does Org Mode deal with some text at the left margin which follows a heading? Does it get folded with the heading? I don't want to have to indent text just to get it folded.