Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes: > It's primary use was for Emacs users to make notes, TODO tasks, > etc. It is secondary that it became leightweight markup language that > can export to various documents.
IMHO it has always been a _lightweight markup language_, used for notes and TODO tasks, then soon enough for exporting too. I got interested to Org back circa 2006 after I stopped working on a small library called bhl.el: https://www.nongnu.org/bhl/ BHL was a lightweight markup language targetting export only. Org was vastly superior in all accounts, so I contributed to Org. -- Bastien Guerry
