Microsoft Project vs Org Mode

Overview

Microsoft Project

Stacks82

Followers63

Votes3

Org Mode

Stacks36

Followers39

Votes10

GitHub Stars6

Forks2

Microsoft Project vs Org Mode: What are the differences?

What is Microsoft Project? A project management software product. It is designed to assist a project manager in developing a schedule, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads. It helps you run projects with ease. Predefined templates and familiar planning tools help project managers and teams stay productive.

What is Org Mode? Org: an Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, and Authoring. Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.

Microsoft Project and Org Mode can be primarily classified as "Project Management" tools.

Some of the features offered by Microsoft Project are:

assigning resources to tasks
tracking progress
managing the budget

On the other hand, Org Mode provides the following key features:

Editing
Planning
Clocking

Org Mode is an open source tool with 3 GitHub stars and 3 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Org Mode's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

Microsoft Project	Org Mode
It is designed to assist a project manager in developing a schedule, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads. It helps you run projects with ease. Predefined templates and familiar planning tools help project managers and teams stay productive.	It is used for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system
Easy to start, simple to use, and vice versa; Take the pain out of painstaking projects; Work hand in hand without being side by side	Editing; Planning; Clocking; Agendas; Capturing;
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 6
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 2
Stacks 82	Stacks 36
Followers 63	Followers 39
Votes 3	Votes 10
Pros & Cons
Pros 3 Easy to use Cons 2 Too expensive	Pros 1 Note-taking 1 To-Do-Lists/Organiser 1 GTD Concept 1 Export to md, html, odt, LaTeX etc 1 Easy formatting Cons 1 Not many editors have org mode support other then Emacs
Integrations
Jira Microsoft 365 Microsoft SharePoint	Geckoboard BugMuncher Bitbucket Bugsnag

What are some alternatives to Microsoft Project, Org Mode?

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.

Trello

Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

Atom

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

Vim

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

Asana

Asana is the easiest way for teams to track their work. From tasks and projects to conversations and dashboards, Asana enables teams to move work from start to finish--and get results. Available at asana.com and on iOS & Android.

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps provides unlimited private Git hosting, cloud build for continuous integration, agile planning, and release management for continuous delivery to the cloud and on-premises. Includes broad IDE support.