I dived into emacs in janurary 2021 fully using doom emacs. I started doing scrum and meeting notes in org, then find myself slowly switching existing notes over to it.
i keep all my emacs configs from ~/.doom.d in git and can easily bounce from machine to machine. Setup is pretty easy and i've found to have the same emacs experience where I go.
I'm not really a note taker, and I haven't picked up org yet. I actually uninstalled it before I realized that all the Doom docs are written in it and without org-mode you can't follow links XD
Reasons:
- DOOM Emacs is fast. Fast to start `emacs --daemon`, fast UX with the default config.
- I've experienced DOOM Emacs to be more cohesive than Spacemacs
I still keep my Spacemacs config around, but I haven't touched it in ... almost a year now.
Additionally, I've found adding my own customizations is much easier in Doom than Spacemacs. While the Spacemacs "layers" approach is nice for setup, it can become very brittle when you start hacking on it yourself. Some of that could also be due to my own lack of skill with elisp, though.
Org-mode can generate latex output but the whole point is to be a more human-readable markup format than latex. Org-mode can also convert your equations to images and display them inline.