[devnullbyte]

I have had a few stints of trying out emacs. I used spacemacs, doom and rolled my own. It never gained any traction for me. I think the reason for this, is that the amount of time I would put into memorizing all the shortcuts and control / meta combinations, setting up all the lisp plugins (and then remembering their control key / meta combinations) is just not worth it for the time lost setting up and learning for the productivity gained. I am better to just use an IDE with all its bells and whistles and for general terminal work my old simple VIM set up easily does the job.

As far as org-mode, meh. I really don't see whats so amazing about collapsible to-do notes anymore. As for email, listening to music etc, I am sorry, but browsers do that job very well and with zero time needed to scour around blogs trying to get them to work.