[westoncb]

Those are interesting ideas. I'm actually not a Vim user either, but it at least has been at the back of my mind for years to to get around to learning. So there's a chance that may work.

I've also been thinking for a couple hours now about how much work it'd be for me to write a small app with the minimal feature set that I'd like from org-mode :) This is almost certainly a terrible idea for me to do in the context of the rest of my life right now.

Using Emacs just for org-mode is actually a pretty appealing option to me considering the description you gave. So I may give that a shot. Thanks!

[mercer]

One of the nice things about Evil/Spacemacs (maybe spacemacs-specific?) is that when you press one of the keys, you get a very useful screen with many of the commands (and then potentially sub-commands) you can issue.

Even as a years-long Vim user it taught me some new tricks.