Comment by smitty1e

For those with wretched joints (me), Spacemacs[1] is a way to have all that org-mode[2] functionality, the joys of magit[3] and have it all work well over SSH.

Leave all the icons to their fans.

[1] https://www.spacemacs.org/

[2] https://orgmode.org/

[3] https://magit.vc/