These kind of things are nice and all, and on a certain level I agree: shape your environment to do the hard work for you.
However, when considering overall productivity, it’s very easy to fall into the trap of yak shaving, and you’ll end up with doing a lot of work in order to be “more efficient”. This always rubs me the wrong way.
And it is for this reason I typically prefer some integration into a tool that I’m already using, rather than using a vast amount of tools that I need to integrate myself.
In the end I settled on emacs for most of my things here, and since I’ve been using it for over 20 years, the investment into learning ELisp etc pays of a lot. I much rather prefer to work with the framework that eg org-mode provides, than try to find some tool that is “just a little bit better!”
Yes, it may be better, but in the end it will involve a lot of work to tie everything together. I simply don’t have the time to do that.
However, when considering overall productivity, it’s very easy to fall into the trap of yak shaving, and you’ll end up with doing a lot of work in order to be “more efficient”. This always rubs me the wrong way.
And it is for this reason I typically prefer some integration into a tool that I’m already using, rather than using a vast amount of tools that I need to integrate myself.
In the end I settled on emacs for most of my things here, and since I’ve been using it for over 20 years, the investment into learning ELisp etc pays of a lot. I much rather prefer to work with the framework that eg org-mode provides, than try to find some tool that is “just a little bit better!”
Yes, it may be better, but in the end it will involve a lot of work to tie everything together. I simply don’t have the time to do that.