Like an ancient wizard weaving his magics into an amulet , my emacs configuration has grown, and grown. Each year I've woven more of my power into it, to the point where emacs is now a part of me. It's not just an editor, it's literally a part of my mind.

A lisper accumulates every line of code they've ever written into a massive personal library, interconnected through org-mode with their music, media, books, links, diary, budget, documentation, website, repositories, … (and the list goes on for quite some time..)

It's not easy to describe this to the emacs uninitiated. Those unlucky people see editors as tools. Emacs is not a tool, it's a systematic way of life, a method of combining all things that I've ever done into a conglomerated tangle that can be reused integratively.

You either get it, or you don't.

I use Emacs Org mode for literally everything, almost my entire life. My ToDo lists live here, and they are extensive, covering everything from brushing my teeth and taking out the garbage, to research topics from 12 years ago.

There are a few thousand todo list entries and the list continues to grow, I groom and categorize the entries regularly, and occasionally pluck something out of the deep layers to work on. I'm certain that if I stopped adding entries there is enough here to keep me busy for the rest of an ordinary human lifespan.

I also keep a personal org-mode emacs notebook which has hundreds of sections, including everything from tables of my favourite music and TV shows, to curated lists of notes on every meeting I've ever attended, and so on.

Every single project I've ever worked on has a section of notes in here, and the entire thing is versioned in git. I use magit to periodically commit and push another chunk up, though the notebook is edited so frequently and at such scale that it is impossible to have clean commit messages for it.