First, I would say that it's a plain text outliner, which takes advantage of a number of the Markdown conventions, and has a powerful Xpath-modelled query language under the hood, as well as a simple @key(value) tagging system and some unusual magic in .timer and .todo modes.
Second, I would say that its the fastest and most fluid medium in which to think and write that I have ever seen.
(It also works pretty well with Marked :-)