choosing/switching between notes packagesSo... I'm working on migrating taking notes for a hobby of…
انتشار: 2026/06/28 05:07 UTC
choosing/switching between notes packagesSo... I'm working on migrating taking notes for a hobby of my mine to Emacs. Previously I used Google Docs, with a fairly simple (by emacs/org standards, anyways) structure - a TOC, and individual entries for various activities on different days. Different size / weight fonts for the headings. Main heading for date + item + primary activity. Sub heading for secondary activity(s). Text blocks (paragraphs), bulleted lists, tables, etc. for detailed information. Images. I've been keeping a separate file per year, for the sake of keeping them reasonable sized. By and large, it's more of mashup between a "dear diary" and "notes to future self" - what I was doing, what I expected to see as a result, what actually happened, what I learned... basically a way to look back and analyze what was going through my head, back when. Very little to no retroactive editing unless I find a literal typo.Not a lot of TODOs, no time tracking, none of the finer detail stuff I see people doing with org-mode. I wouldn't mind exploring tags and such.I know a lot of people do way, way more with their setups. I'm not entirely convinced I need custom key binds and capture templates, but... who knows? Maybe I'll change my mind?All of this is a long-ways-round to saying... I'm trying to figure out what to start with... just a plain org file, emacs diary, denote, org-journal, org...something else? Then there's the question of... for people that use one package/tool, then change to another... how do you manage that transition? Are you able to convert somewhat easily from one to the next, or are you stuck with a hodge-podge of fragments from different setups? Does the pain of moving from one system to another keep you with an existing setup rather than moving to another?redd.it/1uhn5sq@r_emacs