February 22, 2026
When productivity cults collide
Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community
Emacs super‑fans launch “Worg” while the internet argues if anyone actually wants it
TLDR: Org‑mode’s fan community just showed off “Worg,” a giant volunteer‑run guide meant to help people organize their lives with plain text. But the comments erupted into a fight over whether this powerful system is brilliant but trapped in an ancient tool, or simply too painful to use compared to modern alternatives.
Org‑mode, a cult‑favorite note‑taking system inside the old‑school Emacs text editor, just rolled out its community hub “Worg” — a giant fan‑made library of guides, tips, and tricks. The official page is all calm, geeky productivity vibes, but the comment section instantly turned into a nerdy street fight.
On one side, you’ve got the true believers. User sp33der89 is basically begging the world to love Org‑mode beyond Emacs, dreaming of a simple mobile app that uses its clean, readable to‑do format. To them, Org‑mode is the secret sauce of organized life, cruelly trapped in a retro editor most people will never touch.
But the skeptics came in hot. obsidianbases1 bailed after being “turned off by the TUI” (a text‑only interface that looks straight out of the 80s) and ran to a shiny browser‑based tool instead. sointeresting straight up admits they “have absolutely no idea what worg is,” while xannabxlle complains the site is too vague but cheers it on anyway, like a confused but supportive friend.
Then the big bomb: ordu declares Org‑mode “sucks for anything else” outside Emacs and has defected to Markdown, a simpler text format with way more tools. In other words: one camp says Org‑mode is a life‑changing superpower, the other says it’s a genius locked in a basement with no way out.
Key Points
- •Worg is the community-maintained documentation section of the Org-mode website, with its sources available via a public Git repository on SourceHut.
- •Org-mode is a plain-text based organizing system integrated into the Emacs editor, handling notes, TODOs, calendars, and project schedules with features like search, encryption, backup, and export.
- •Org-mode runs wherever Emacs runs, including GNU/Linux, Windows, and Mac, and was originally written by Carsten Dominik and is now maintained by Ihor Radchenko.
- •Worg provides tutorials, configuration examples, ideas, code snippets, glossary, manuals, guides, and reference cards (in multiple languages and formats) to help users learn and customize Org-mode.
- •The article lists multiple support channels for Org-mode users, including a FAQ, mailing list, IRC channel on Libera, Mastodon hashtag, Reddit and Stack Overflow pages, and an Emacs event calendar with Org-mode meetups, while discouraging posting on Reddit and Stack Overflow from a free software perspective.