I switched to Spacemacs around the same time you picked up Doom and dropped Spacemacs for Doom around a month ago.

I'm not really a note taker, and I haven't picked up org yet. I actually uninstalled it before I realized that all the Doom docs are written in it and without org-mode you can't follow links XD

I've been using spacemacs for a while, haven't looked into doom. Mind telling me why you decided to switch?

I also switched from Spacemacs to DOOM. I've decided to stay.

Reasons:

- DOOM Emacs is fast. Fast to start `emacs --daemon`, fast UX with the default config.

- I've experienced DOOM Emacs to be more cohesive than Spacemacs

I still keep my Spacemacs config around, but I haven't touched it in ... almost a year now.

The startup speed of DOOM Emacs is outstanding, as others have noted.

Additionally, I've found adding my own customizations is much easier in Doom than Spacemacs. While the Spacemacs "layers" approach is nice for setup, it can become very brittle when you start hacking on it yourself. Some of that could also be due to my own lack of skill with elisp, though.

I enjoy the way Doom is organized. You can overcome any startup timing problems in emacs by using daemon mode whether it's doom, space, or stock.

I tried to do a dive into emacs in the Dec 2020 because of what i read a bout Org, but i just hit too many stability issues on my MBP with Doom - just went back to vimwiki after 2 wasted evenings. :/ Maybe someday.

Didn't click for me until I needed to work on a Pinebook Pro that didn't have the juice for VSCode. After a full day of working with Emacs I'm a convert. The hardest things to grok were minibuffers and how every named command run with M-x is just an Elisp subroutine. After that Emacs just feels like a huge library of text manipulation functions, ergo, Editor MACroS.

Don't you think an org-mode for TeXmacs would be even better?

Why would it be better?

Org-mode can generate latex output but the whole point is to be a more human-readable markup format than latex. Org-mode can also convert your equations to images and display them inline.

TeXmacs is a great looking piece of software, but I've never understood the name. I don't think it uses TeX underneath the hood, nor does it use Emacs.