[yakcyll]

I found Obsidian great, so if this reaches near feature parity and allows me to stay in the terminal, it's a great upgrade already.

Recently though I switched from vim to Doom Emacs and started learning org-mode. This turned out to quite literally be a career breakthrough for me, as I realized how much easier it is with both to remain productive throughout the day and to manage my personal knowledge base, or second brain.

I'd highly recommend everyone to try DE out [0]. I always thought Emacs to be unnecessarily complex, but majority of it is hidden away in special features. DE, especially for vimmers, delivers a lot of very useful IDE-like functionality out of the box, simplifies the hotkeys, provides stellar configurability and, in my experience, just lets fingers flow more smoothly across the keyboard.

Org-mode by itself may seem daunting as well, but it turns out to be designed in a similar fashion - take and use what you need, no hidden complexity or other strings attached. I can recommend Distrotube's tutorials on either [1].

[0]: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea_-TaEGa7Y

[Jeff_Brown]

Org mode has a lot of rabbit holes, but to use org roam (which builds on org mode and Lets you manage a knowledge graph) effectively is surprisingly easy. You need to know how to link to something, how to view backlinks, how to format the tree of text using asterisks to indicate depth in the tree, how to define aliases in a note's Properties drawer, and that's pretty much it.

[araekiel]

Cool! Will check it out.