Having switched to Linux for 90% of my computing, I realized Emacs could cover much of those 90%:
- mu4e for email
- org-mode for project management
- Denote for slipbox-styled notes I have followed the Zettelkasten blog since its early days but have somehow missed out that they were big proponents of Emacs. Here is a talk Christian Tietez of the Zettelkasten blog had at EmacsConf 2025, which is how I learned about Denote.
- A custom micro.blog client, Microbe, for blog post management
- A custom Inkwell client, Inkling, for reading RSS feeds
And for all my kvetching about how ugly Emacs can be, this was in fact a me problem and not an Emacs problem. It took 8 lines of code and downloading some decent fonts for things to look much better.
Microsoft’s Windows Office Copilot web apps cover almost everything else. Alas, not absolutely everything:
- Having used DEVONthink for document management I am reluctant to go back to the naked file system. Still, in the last few years I had been using DEVONthink’s advanced capabilities less and less to the point that its main purpose was as a security blanket.
- My data analysis journey went from R to Python (or rather iPython/Jupyter) to Mathematica. There are many reasons why Mathematica is no longer a good fit so now I have to decide how many steps back I should take — to Python or R.
- Podcast recording and editing is a tiny issue in the grand scheme — there is but a single podcast in Serbian that I am in care of — but I would rather not have to reinvent the workflow I have down pat in Logic Pro that gets me from raw mp3 to the final upload in 15 minutes or less.
Which is to say, expect a few more of these updates on the software side. Hardware will have to wait.