Karl Voit gave a talk about Org mode at the recent 35c3 conference. He argued the position that even if you’re a die hard Vim user—like he is—Org mode has a lot to offer and it’s worth learning a bit about it. One of his main takeaways was that Emacs is not just an editor but a Lisp interpreter that provides a framework for many (non-editing) functions such as calendars, email, and others.
Sadly, as far as I can tell, no video was made of the talk but Voit has made his notes available. The notes give an outline of the talk but more importantly provide links to all the material he was discussing. One of Voit’s major concerns is Personal Information Management (PIM) and that is one of his major uses of Org-mode.
I’m hoping that someone did capture video of the talk and will make it available later. In the meantime, we have his notes.