Emacs Org Mode is a perfect tool to do almost anything! I particularly like its slogan and design concept: Organize Your Life In Plain Text! I use Org Mode for many things, which includes writing a to-do list, building a study plan, writing blog posts (including this one), scribbling documents to organise my thoughts (you can also run code in Org Mode, how cool is that!), and planning a research paper. ...
There are some modes I used to turn my emacs into a powerful IDE environment for c++, python and latex editing. So I post it here to share with anyone who might have interest in using emacs as main editor. In my OS X, I have installed those packages and Lisp scripts including, MELPA package manager, AUCTeX, irony-mode, company-mode, highlight-symbol, flycheck, company-irony-c-header, auto-complete, ac-math, Yasnippet, Neo Tree, company-auctex, ggtags, cpputils-camke, pyenv-mode, anaconda-mode, languagetool For more information about c++ IDE environment settings please see this amazing introduction. Here is my emacs/aquamacs setting file: ...