To be honest, if I were looking for an outliner today as I was when I found org-mode, I might have been scared off. Org-mode has gotten very big. But as you said, the easy things are easy. There are a great many feature in org-mode that I have not used nor have I had time to learn to use. They have had no negative impact on me. For the most part, I've found the features I don't use can be safely ignored and the ones I am using require very little setup.
I guess the best way to address this problem might be to document up front that org-mode uses a simple, readable, text only format and that all of the features can be used independently of each other but that they do interact well together. (It's been a while since I've scanned the manual, so maybe that's already in the intro.) I guess we could put together a tutorial of using org-mode as just a friendly listing, outliner without using any of the other features to show org-mode can scale up to Taskpaper's level of simplicity. I'd have a hard time not adding a table though. Edd _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode