I would love to give orgmode a chance. "On paper" Emacs sounded great to me. Last year, I gave it a few days time to try to get it to work - I just could not figure it out! It's been awhile since I tried it, but between the keyboard shortcuts, and "buffers", the various plugins to install and configure, and emacs felt slow (which surprised me, because I'd thought it would be extremely snappy, being a text app)... I'm sure if I sat down with a pro for 20 minutes, a lot of the blockers would be eliminated and could get to a productive state. If you can recommend resources, that result in an Org-Mode "easy mode", I'd love to check it out...

Emacs Org-mode is on my list technologies to check out which have stood the test of time, and may continue to do so...