I take my notes in org-mode with deft plugin and latex snippets. I have shortcuts for taking screenshots and importing them in the org document. I use blocks for gnuplot, octave, etc.

It is very powerful but at the same time slow. Every time emacs generates the latex bits it takes some time to generate and open the file.

There is also a little bit of overhead because it is a lot of elements and a lot of syntax to generate documents.

I am learning math so my org files are full of latex code, screenshots and graphs.

It is very powerful but I wonder if I am wasting my time into details.

Sometimes I think I should limit myself to text only, but I am not sure I can convey textually ideas that are better represented in picture.

Also, although I very much like emacs I find it very slow.

So...there is this tradeoff, either very complete and detailed but slow (emacs/orgmode/deft/latex) or very basic and simple but quick (neovim/plain_txt/fzf).

I still do not know what would be better.