1/ One of the most peculiar things about Emacs is how you can spend ages (literally years) not using a feature - sometimes not even knowing about its existence - and then suddenly having your life change when you find it. org-mode agenda is one of those features.
2/ I've been using Emacs for time management for maybe a decade now, and I can honestly say I would not have made it through the PhD without it. Its such a long winded, uncertain effort over a long period of time that without some form of organisation I would have just got lost.
3/ Emacs has enabled me to keep close tabs on all the work carried out, to subdivide it as and when things change, with absolutely minimal fuss. I had been using things such as GitHub issues, Jira, etc etc for decades and always found them to be a pain. org-mode is just seamless. 
4/ And of course, with minimal effort you can also plot nice graphs. What I like about it is how little effort it required from my part. I had tried other forms of time management and gave up, because I just can't be bothered to context-switch when I am in the thick of it.
5/ Anyways, to cut a very long story short, my life is now managed by org-mode and I feel much happier about it. However, what I never thought about doing - and really, don't ask me why I didn't - is to using org-mode agenda. Maybe its because PhD work is all under your control.
6/ However, at work you have deadlines, meetings, and a constant stream of events coming at you. And I suddenly - wouldn't it be nice if that was integrated with my nice, seamless time management system. And, of course, it being Emacs, there is a solution: org-mode agenda.
7/ I've been using it for a few weeks, and honestly, I don't know how I was able to live all this time without it :-D Here's a good intro (screenshot from that post) blog.aaronbieber.com/2016/09/24/an-…
8/ I think this is one of the reasons why many people end up "living" inside of Emacs - you just can't be bothered to context switch to other tools and re-learn all of that muscle memory. Plus, you start to integrate all of your workflows into one "supra" workflow. Which is nice.
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