I have emerged into the "always open buffers" mode and have two: one as a tabular log I can extract time data from, and the other as the stand-up did/doing log. I know I could combine them but there's a human-centric model which goes to separate files for separate functions.
Sometimes I open a .org in VI, to take rapid notes. Its not that I couldn't have spun open an emacs buffer, but the muscle memory for VI writing is there. Org works as a structure model.
I tend to think in a mixture of .org and .md and I think thats fine too. Pandoc fixes most things.
Org Mode is great, but despite more than one serious attempt to get comfortable with it, I still bump into things about emacs and the emacs/elisp ecosystem that put me off. Yes, I've tried it since the 90s. Emacs was my primary editor for years. No, there's nothing objectively wrong with emacs. I just don't find it works well for me.
Sometimes I open a .org in VI, to take rapid notes. Its not that I couldn't have spun open an emacs buffer, but the muscle memory for VI writing is there. Org works as a structure model.
I tend to think in a mixture of .org and .md and I think thats fine too. Pandoc fixes most things.