For the last few years, I’ve been on a journey to replace all of the essential digital tools I use for organizing my life with tools I develop, maintain, and deploy myself. https://thesephist.com/posts/tools

Interesting. That's pretty much how my own toolbox has evolved as well, though I wasn't really aware of it before reading this essay! My tech stack is Emacs plus a few add-ons (org, org-roam, notmuch). I have an org-roam database for long-term notes, and two plain org files (work/personal) for short-time notes and to-dos. A crucial feature for me is that I can link from those two org files to my long-term notes, to e-mails, and to the individual files and directories in which I manage larger projects, in particular collaborative ones. Each project also has an org file for project-specific short-term notes, for the notes I share with my collaborators.

This is great, thanks for sharing. Now we only need to make it happen that everybody can do that, not just us geeks who know how to program.

Similar: https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5T9GPWFL/p1583608988119700