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not the author, just a non-techy person who wants to try org mode without the complexity of emacs.

A non-techy person who has heard of emacs!

"Non-techy" is Impostor Syndrome for "somewhat techy".

I think org-mode has contributed a lot to making emacs more popular (or less obscure, depending on how you see it? :) )

See this for example: https://github.com/incandescentman/Emacs-Settings

Just as a bit of encouragement, I used emacs for like 4 years knowing only 5 commands (open file, change buffers, save file, kill buffer, close emacs).

It's not that bad if you wade into it slowly.

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