A Thousand Words Are Worth A Million Pictures

Do you want to try explain basic algebra using pictures instead of words? How about the history of the Calvinism? Or writing a program using only pictures?

Emacs is not just a text editor; because it is programmable at a deep level it is a rich tool kit for creating applications designed to work with words. So the most powerful personal information manager that I'm aware of isn't a standalone program like Zim (which is pretty good btw) but the Org Mode plug-in for emacs.

Once you've coded an emacs extension it's easy to understand why this is: emacs lets you start with a working system at once and add functionality to it, and it provides a very rich toolkit for working with text.

So - I LOVE YOU EMACS!