I use Orgmode. A lot. It's my primary organisation method, as the General Manager for a small 3 person sub-company, as well as my household organisation.

I've always, unwittingly, organised myself via two systems:

  1. Lists
  2. Matrices 

I love the tables in Orgmode [0]. They are intuitive, simple, and just beautifully done.

That said, the spreadsheet functionality is a different beast altogether. Even though it's the same interface as the tables, it adds an exponential layer of complexity, and separation from how most people view a spreadsheet. It's powerful, but a bit daunting, and I don't see many journalists being able to grok it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHKrTsiz4JU&index=25&list=PL...

I just discovered that you can actually use Org's Tables as R data frames, and all sorts of other R actions from within Org. [0]

So that's quite amazing.

[0] http://ehneilsen.net/notebook/orgExamples/org-examples.html#...