I’m 22, going into masters in CS.
I’ve been using obsidian for pkm business, and a jetbrains IDE for coding.
Put yourself in my shoes! If you were in my scenario (young, cs, age of AI upcoming), what would you do…
Really looking forward to these answers and ideas, thank you so much!!!
I think the most important thing is the purpose of using a tool, what benefits you expect to gain from it, and what costs you’re willing to endure.
The benefit of using Emacs is that everything is customizable, but the cost is that you’ll spend a great deal of time on it, to the point where you might never want to switch to another tool afterward.
You should list a more detailed table to clarify your goals, needs, and the price you’re willing to pay. Then ask others for their opinions—generally speaking, the more clearly and completely you express your purpose, the more others can help you.
But right now, I can’t understand your true needs from such vague phrasing.
Can you see yourself to build workflows with Emacs?
I mean stuff like using org-mode to layout the outlines of a essays, add tables with org-table, org-babel to add literal programming to the data, org-export to export the result to PDF though Latex and Magit to version your changes.
I’m deep enough in Emacs that I don’t want to use anything else as my config provides a continuity and with it muscle memory in usage that makes usage a joy. I do use some other tools at times and I feel like it’s a chore so I try to do this only for work, where I can’t justify the time I would spend adapting Emacs to the task.
If this speaks to you, give it a try.