Next up, how to make your Ferrari into a Fiero clone.
Seriously, though, this seems kind of counterproductive. The power of Org mode and some of the other tools in Emacs comes from being integrated into the rest of Emacs and the synergies from Emacs idioms and concepts working everywhere in Emacs.
Just my opinion, but the time spent learning this front end would be better spent just learning the Emacs UI. It's really not that difficult, and pretending you can't learn it just makes it more difficult in the long run.
It's more like how to put a modern day car dash over an F16 fighter jet. One has modern expectations and standards everyone is already familiar with but far less power and features, while the other existed before usability was even an idea but has more power and features than even most experts can handle. And in this case (and analogy), you can always slowly remove parts of the interface that hide the more powerful features.
I say this as a 10 year Emacs user who left for VSCode and Zed because I decided I'd rather discover new modern features when they became useful (VSCode/Zed) rather than having to hunt them down when I became too fed up with the status quo and then have to spend weeks figuring out how to get them working (Emacs).
That said, I keep itching to go back for some of the power features. If only it weren't a full time job just maintaining a basic emacs config.
> It's more like how to put a modern day car dash over an F16 fighter jet.
Yeah, that's probably a better analogy.
> If only it weren't a full time job just maintaining a basic emacs config.
I've heard that before, and I don't get it. I might spend 20 minutes a month updating my config, but it's really a set it and forget it thing for me. What are people doing that requires so much work?
Seriously, though, this seems kind of counterproductive. The power of Org mode and some of the other tools in Emacs comes from being integrated into the rest of Emacs and the synergies from Emacs idioms and concepts working everywhere in Emacs.
Just my opinion, but the time spent learning this front end would be better spent just learning the Emacs UI. It's really not that difficult, and pretending you can't learn it just makes it more difficult in the long run.