It’s a commonplace in the Emacs community that one of the big advantages of Emacs is that all your tools are connected and work with each other. Those of us at the extreme edge of that truism make it a point to try to do everything we can in Emacs. Still, it’s mostly just something you hear repeated occasionally: there aren’t many case studies to confirm it.
Over at the Emacs subreddit, pragmat1c1 has some actual data. He was an Emacs/Org-mode user who got seduced by all the shiny applications for writing and collecting/storing information. It’s true: they are pretty nice but as pragmat1c1 discovered, they don’t work all that well together. You’ve got a set of nice tools but they aren’t integrated and it’s difficult to share information among them.
Realizing this, pragmat1c1 returned to Emacs and Org-mode and was delighted to (re)discover how well things fit together in the Emacs ecosystem. All his activities, such as writing, text editing, and task management, are connected and he can access any of them while working on any of the others. Everything just fit together.
So, it appears that all that conventional wisdom is correct. The Emacs environment really does provide a coherent framework for accomplishing all your work. So much for Emacs being a niche application with ever decreasing relevancy.
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