[kkfx]

I have an even cheaper suggestion: doing like me, using org-mode for notes and small potatoes computation, Python for more complex stuff, rarely Maxima CAS, and LaTeX to produce documents. All these tools offer much bigger features set, much bigger flexibility, produce much better results and are FLOSS tools.

Seriously the MIT Missing Semester MUST be a high-schools mandatory course, anyone who want to have a non-mere-manual profession must have passed this course. We are in damn 2025, it's about time to recognize that computers are the mean of knowledge like papers and libraries before, not knowing how to use them properly means being illiterate, even with some PhDs.

[VyseofArcadia]

For some reason there is this pervasive attitude that it's ok to not be good with computers, the same way it's ok to be bad at math. It is a socially acceptable thing to be bad at, even if you use computers for work every single day. This is paired with the weirdly pervasive attitude that any tool with a learning curve is bad. Throw in the siren song of "good enough", and you have swathes of people who are completely uninterested in choosing the best tool for the job and instead choose the easiest tool for the job.