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I'm curious why you refer to it as a trap. I personally use spacemacs and am very happy with it and I also use org mode casually, though do not consider myself an expert by any means. I do think I've experienced a similar "quantum leap" in productivity through my usage of VIM commands in an emacs environment though and am thankful for it every time I see a coworker painstakingly navigating through sublime text or something similar. Definitely not a trap for me. I imagine the productivity gains heralded by fans of org mode are similar in nature, so your idea that this focus on increased automation for personal productivity should be considered a "trap" is curious to me.

I do concede that org mode and lisp in general are brought up perhaps a bit too often here at HN seeing as they're not all that new though.

Heh. Emacs/lisp users always make posts like: "look at this great [thing] to completely simplify [thing]" while simultaneously posting 82 steps to get it all working and automated :)

I really like two things from the author's system, but I will call out that neither of them require org-mode:

1) Being able to clone the author's blog repo and read it offline (just a bonus that it's already in org mode so no post-processing necessary). Is there a "lemme download everything by this author and read offline?" button on Medium?

2) The blog being in a public Git repository is nice for transparency.