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Re:Getting Organized with Org Mode by frankzinger on Friday November 28, 2014 @01:02AM (#8669850)
In addition to what LiveTheDream said, you can export to plain text with org-export-as-ascii.
Re:Getting Organized with Org Mode by freshhawk on Friday November 28, 2014 @09:08PM (#8672848)
And Pandoc is great (but not perfect) for two way conversions to/from various formats now that it supports org files.

I still keep all my stuff in org files, but it's only fair to warn people that these don't work very well as a format when sharing those files with people of arbitrary technical knowledge.