Comment by mr_gibbins
3 years ago
I'm sorry to say that Notepad, then Notepad++, have been my tools of choice for nearly 20 years.
To-do lists, work journals (immensely useful as a knowledge base especially in short gigs), assignments, coding, the lot.
I wrote most of my 90,000-odd word doctoral thesis in it.
Notepad++ supports tons of keyboard shortcuts and has useful plugins.
I can write neat LaTeX in it. I write research papers with it. It will save into any format I want and open almost any format I give to it.
It is that simple, and that convenient, that I will never ever change tool, and no amount of write-ups of alternative personal knowledge bases on HN (and there are many, oh so many) will convince me otherwise.
OP here. I agree!
The not so subtle meta-point of my post is to create a system around one's personal workflows and tastes. As I've stated in the post, orgmode was easy access for me because I was already using Emacs as my daily driver. Before my Emacs days, were my MS Office days, during which time OneNote was my go-to corporate survival tool and daily driver.
Sounds like you've sorted yourself out handsomely.
This is, ah, noteworthy :)