Comment by massysett
21 hours ago
Don’t switch text editors, and don’t use a plugin.
For a few years I used Orgmode. I didn’t use Emacs. That is, when I needed to edit text files, I used Vim or macOS TextEdit. I used Orgmode to track my tasks and keep notes. That Emacs was underneath it was purely incidental, and I didn’t use Emacs for anything else. For me, Orgmode was not a plugin. It was the primary software I used, and there was this Emacs thing under it.
Ironically, these days I do actually use Emacs, and I use OmniFocus for tasks, mostly because OmniFocus gets multi-device sync right so it’s worth the price. But don’t hesitate to use Orgmode even if you don’t want Emacs otherwise.
And now you encounter the issue of, "a long list of features that I don't want".
It is hard to sell someone on a solution to a problem that they don't have.
org-mode is basically better Markdown with a bunch of automated things that don't get in your way unless you specifically put them in there.
The only unwanted feature you're likely to encounter is automatic sub/superscript conversion, and that's documented and easy to turn off.
I'm not recommending org-mode. I personally don't care if you use org-mode or not. I never understood that mentality. But the type of software you're describing is crap, and org-mode doesn't fall into that category.