Org Mode
So I left a comment on HN about why non-programmers don't do open source and someone replied to me inviting me to get involved. And I started to write a long-ish reply and I'm not sure I want to engage there for various reasons. So the next four paragraphs are from my initial draft there before I decided to make this a blog post, not an HN reply: As a non-programmer, this looks really intimidating to me. My understanding of Emacs is that "it's for serious programmers only " and I only know some HTML and CSS and have yet to learn a real programming language, though it's a long-standing goal of mine to do so. I have a Certificate in GIS and theoretically should fit right in on HN, I don't and I have experienced incidents where people went out of their way to make sure I knew their ugly opinion that I don't really belong here and I'm not really welcome here and so forth. Anyway, I do have a point: I searched for "what does org mode do