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Apr 28, 2018 at 11:59
It's too easy to get excited about time tracking, tags, and literate programming when starting out with org-mode. It has a huge featureset. I'd encourage new users just to treat it as a better markdown-mode, and learn about folding and links, before diving in to the rest.

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Great post discussing the weaknesses of literate programming:
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