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I'm ashamed to admit that although I'm an Emacs poweruser (even getting okay'ish at writing elisp after all these years), I use org-mode but I'm terribly bad at it.

I mostly use it because it allows collapsing text and don't use any advanced feature. I'll sometimes include pictures and a piece of code here or there but it's really mostly just text (I take it that's the whole point !?).

And it'd say it's already quite good even when used in that "dumb" way.

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OP here. I agree and warrant that is a perfectly legitimate way to use orgmode, viz. as much as one needs it to be, no more, no less.

My personal use case was just plaintext notes, for quite a while. I still haven't included pictures anywhere (as in display inline). So you are more advanced than I, at least in that department :)

It's not you, a system like org mode that allows a user to be terribly bad is a failed system. It's a productivity system that makes you unproductive. It's the kind of yak shaving emacs users love to sell to unsuspecting programmers when they could use modern tools that actually increase their productivity from the start and don't suck them down a rabbit hole of wasted time only to realize they have to set up a small company's worth of infrastructure just to secure and sync notes.

We get it. You don't like Org or Emacs. Don't use it.

I do not like vim. I think the whole concept of modes is stupid. So when I see an article about vim, I skip it.

Yes, I am telling you to go fly a kite.

I frequently teach new org-mode users how to just "click then tab" to expand nodes as well as using `context-menu-mode` right click.

That way they don't have to remember any bindings, however I point out that the bindings are listed in case they every have interest in memorizing frequently used ones.

Ah the mouse on the other hand is something I rarely reach for : )

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