I used Emacs for software development and git interfacing.

I tried organizing my knowledge with org-roam. I tried maintaining org todo lists. I tried having an active org-agenda. I tried...

But what I do more than eight hours a day, every week day, is read, write and debug code. Emacs was once the best, it is now not so great.

I've been using Emacs for over two decades, now. It's painful that it fell behind so quickly.

I tried org-roam too and it just feels like a bad joke compared to VSCode's foam. Foam has a real time graph of your notes. In org-roam, you need to call a method to get a static graph open in your browser. In theory, you can click the nodes in the org-roam graph to go to your notes... but it doesn't work out of the box for me. Whereas in Foam I can just ctrl+click on a node and bam, i'm in the file I want to be.

I also really like that Foam lets me edit files in markdown in the left window while seeing the rendered version in the right window. The trade-off is this seems to waste screen real estate like there's no tomorrow, but with a 4k screen, I think it's worth the trade-off.