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From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 22:04:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86r428mhmf.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CFD4870F.1E08E%Elwood151@web.de

M <Elwood151@web.de> writes:

>> Von: Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>
>> Organisation: www.karl-voit.at
>> Antworten an: Karl Voit <news1142@Karl-Voit.at>
>> Datum: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:43:31 +0200
>> An: <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
>> Betreff: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I was wondering if there are people out there who also need Org-mode
>> features that are *not part of any other software solution*. For the
>> usual question "why should I learn Emacs/Org-mode?" I'd like to have
>> a list of cool Org-mode features that demonstrate the benefit.
>> 
>> So, how about a short brainstorming here and a new Worg-page
>> collecting those things?
>> 
>> I start with:
>> 
>> * seamlessly integrating notes, spreadsheet calculations, tasks, and
>> more at one single place
>> 
>> * being able to pipe results of program written in language A to
>> another script in language B (babel)
>> 
>> * quick and simple defining dependencies between tasks such as
>> "doing groceries" is required for "cooking fancy dinner"
>> (org-depend)
>> 
>
> Hi Karl,
>
> that's a very good idea. However, really _unique_ selling points might be
> difficult to find. For your first one I'm not sure, but dependencies are
> available in other tools to, so it's not a true USP.

Actually, it is a good USP for a task management system.  Most other
task management systems that I've seen (like Toodledo) only support one
level of parent-child relationships and do not support task
dependencies or they support it badly.

> You have to know all "competitors" and their features to be sure it is a
> true (unique!) USP. This is nearly impossible.

That's what the newsgroup is for.

> Martin

-- 
David Masterson
Programmer At Large

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-29  5:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-28 11:43 Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode Karl Voit
2014-06-28 12:51 ` M
2014-06-28 13:13   ` Karl Voit
2014-06-28 13:40     ` M
2014-06-28 14:14     ` M
2014-06-28 14:23       ` Karl Voit
2014-06-29  5:04   ` David Masterson [this message]
2014-06-29  5:55     ` M
2014-08-04 14:37   ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-06-28 13:41 ` Rainer M Krug
2014-06-28 13:59   ` M
2014-06-28 14:28     ` Karl Voit
2014-06-28 14:52       ` M
2014-07-01 19:07         ` Karl Voit
2014-07-23  2:37           ` M
2014-07-23  7:14             ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-07-23 22:40               ` M
2014-06-28 18:02 ` Melleus
2014-07-27 17:53 ` Bastien
2014-07-28 19:56   ` Thorsten Jolitz

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