On Fr 19 Mär 2021 at 13:33, Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > With respect to the topic at hand, I believe it's the result of the same > tendency that Excel users have of using spreadsheets (aka tables) for > everything, something I hate when I'm given some Excel sheet that I need > to modify and where entries are huge paragraphs. The UI in Excel is > horrible for these types of tables. I would hate to see org go in the > same direction.
+1 for that Unfortunately I have to deal with this type of people at work. > In many cases, I believe that a simple text based database format would > be more appropriate. I wonder if the time would be better spent > providing native support for GNU recutils [1] in org instead. recutils has an emacs mode an I think it even has some sort of org-mode integration. 'Andreas
