

* Organize your tasks and projects with org-mode and work seemelessly with your team by syncing with org-trello. I mean if all you want is a text editor, some SCM integration, some build tool integration, syntax highlighting, and code completion then going with a specialized tool just for that is a good choice.īut the power of Emacs is that it can do nigh-anything and everything is a few lines of elisp away from being tightly integrated. Spacemacs, Prelude, and Scimacs are all good options depending on your use-case. You're ignoring distributions of Emacs which are designed to solve this problem by bundling and pre-configuring everything. I'm surprised more people don't do the same. I find myself more eager to write things down. If Gollum stops being maintained, I can use whatever the next best markdown renderer is. If there's a feature I wish it had, I can write a quick bash script to implement it.

Edited with vim and a few bash scripts, rendered with a custom deployment of Gollum. Plain timestamped markdown files linked together.

It's silly to use software that isn't making that same investment.Īfter trying Evernote, Workflowy, Notion, wikis, org-mode, and essentially everything else I could find, I gave up and tried building my own system for notes. When you write things down, you're investing in your future. At best it's open source and the maintainers will lose interest in a few years. I've given up on using any sort of branded app for notetaking.
