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Add to SafariWhen comparing Emacs Org-mode vs Milanote, the Slant community recommends Milanote for most people. In the question“What is the best note taking app for Mac?” Milanote is ranked 16th while Emacs Org-mode is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Milanote is:
This app works great for thought maps, brainstorming, taking notes from meetings.
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Pros
Pro Ultimate flexibility
This app's flexibility is based on its minimalist approach, giving the user near-infinite freedom.
Pro Absolutely free
Emacs with Org-mode is free as in beer and free as in speech – that is, it costs nothing and it’s totally open source.
Pro Files are usable anywhere at anytime
Users are not tied to one service provider, program, platform, or database engine.
Pro Incredibly extensible
There are many plug-ins for Org-mode, including Org-habits and Org-notify. If Org-mode lacks some piece of functionality, it is very easy to add it.
Pro Agenda views
Pro Excellent unofficial Android app (orgzly)
Pro Offline support
Pro Efficient features for deadline organization
Pro Supports plaintext spreadsheets
Pro There are a lot of extensions, for exporting to html, bootstrap, js-reveal and much more
Pro Quickly add rich text
Pro It's well-suited for collaboration
This app works great for thought maps, brainstorming, taking notes from meetings.
Pro Has a free version
Pro You and other individuals can work on a single note effectively due to the real-time collaboration feature
You can invite other collaborators to your Milanote board, allowing them to work on notes you create. You will also be able to see the changes that they make to the notes in real time.
Pro Instantly creates backups of notes that you make
The application creates backups of the notes that you make, along with the latest changes that you have made. This is very useful if your device unexpectedly shuts down as your work will still be available for your to edit the next time you open the app.
Cons
Con Unintuitive user interface
The key combinations are unintuitive and difficult to remember. This is probably because there are a lot of hidden "modes" depending on where the cursor is. Actions aren't paired with reversing actions like in other todo apps. For example, hitting shift-tab does NOT reverse the effect of hitting tab.
Con Android app isn't very good
There are several user-created apps for Android, but none seem to offer the same level of functionality as other to-do apps.
Con Not really cross platform
Although it is possible to get a lot of it working, no all in one, sync included, out of the box solution is available for mobile devices.
Con By default, a hard-to-read display
The default way of writing an outline or checklist creates a very messy wall of text that's difficult to read with no vertical spacing. You can manually add vertical spacing, but the Org operations don't preserve it. There are pretty-display modes, but you need to remember how to enable them, etc. etc.
