Yes the learning curve has been hard, but well worth it in my opinion. I like the fact that emacs and orgmode are here to stay, have stood the test of time and have functionality that even the likes of roam and obsidian do not have.
Or the app changes pricing model, I’m thinking of Ulysses, Day One, Noteplan and the like, all who made a decision that meant I needed to move on. My other issue is the never ending appearance (and disapperance) of apps.
Plenty of editors, but no simple solutions for complex documents, and by complex I’m not talking about equations, I’m talking about simple headers and footers, proper margins and the like. This has been a glaring hole in the markdown world in my opinion. Orgmode emacs, gives me plain text, but I can create just about any type of document I like. Just trying to create a properly formatted pdf from markdown is no easy task. I’ve been happy with markdown for 10 years, but during that time find it too limited. My complete management and text work is in orgmode. Some configs require installing other software such as latex or pandoc, but that is fairly ubiquitos. My configuration works well from either usb or Dropbox and can be quickly installed on other systems. I’ve not found the croos apps sync a problem. Emacs is a nice code editor, but I’ve failed to start using it as a PIM. The closest one to what I’ve dreamed of is Amplenote’s.
After all, knowledge-management software has to have nice UI I guess. It’s not trivial to setup cross-device sync. It’s not convenient, plain text not really helping here. I tried it, but felt it requires too much effort to do stuff right. It’s a good out-of-the-box solution, though I can’t help feeling I have to actually strip its functionality to what I need, contrary to building stuff up with vanilla emacs.
It’ll be interesting how it scales and when/if I hit limitations. There is of course a fairly sharp learning curve with emacs, but the doom distro is well put together and easy to use. Even org-tree-slide mode for simple online presentations has all been good. The power of links and export to PDF via LaTeX, plus some very well designed html exporters is making things pretty easy. This is working extrmely well and I’m not missing the apps I’ve sidelined. I’m using it as my main workstation at the moment, so all my writing, meetings, todo’s are in emacs. I have been pleasantly surprised in how well it works. This year I thought I’d try out Doom Emacs ( ). I have skirted with Emacs a number of times over the years.
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