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Today, plain text adoption often implies markdown for a richer experience. There are loads of markdown apps on the app stores, but the lesser-known org markup continues to fly under the radar. Quite possibly because of its Emacs origin (and many folks moving to other editors), but org is still plain text (and super powerful). We can all benefit from wider adoption beyond Emacs.

I built two org-powered apps for iOS myself:

https://plainorg.com

https://flathabits.com

There are other great ones out there:

https://beorg.app

https://braintool.org

https://logseq.com

https://organice.200ok.ch

https://orgro.org

http://orgzly.com

Shoutout to Karl Voit who's been driving org markup awareness outside of Emacs with Orgdown https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown. He's also discussed org markup's strengths at https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only

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Nice list! For using org-mode on desktop we made EasyOrg, https://easyorgmode.com. With a focus on managing todos for projects and with easy to use agenda and calendar views. More features and improvements being worked on.

EasyOrg looks interesting. I'm the developer of BrainTool, a browser bookmarking tool using an accessible org-mode file as backing store. I've long thought that org-mode needs an easy onramp. The copyright and blog entries ended in 2020, is it still under active development? (BTW the Twitter and Medium links point back to the homepage)

I could see users using EasyOrg in combination with BrainTool in the same manner as currently works with LogSeq[0]. How would you compare the two?

https://braintool.org/2022/01/28/Browser-based-Productivity-...

Hey, I did not know about EasyOrg. Well done, looks great!

Welcome to the non-Emacs org family :) apologies if it was just me not noticing before!

Consider adding EasyOrg to https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/doc/Tool...