@hell I used #Emacs for fifteen years back in the day. I abandoned it for jEdit, which never quite rose to its potential, then switched to a variety of IDE's for serious work with jEdit as a fallback for small jobs.

Now I've dusted off Emacs for #Notes and ToDo's using #OrgRoam with #OrgRoamUI on top of #OrgMode. Unlike Freeplane, which I used before, this can be set up on a GrapheneOS phone and is a killer app for me. I like that it's an open source #LocalFirst text mode #PKM without lock-in

@thetemp org-roam seems to encourage lots of notes. However, some users report that the database slows down when the node count gets over 20,000 nodes.

Each file has an ID, but linkable ID's can be assigned to any headline, so you could mix and match the approaches easily.

org-roam-ui treats all ID's as nodes, so both approaches produce the same graph.

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@thetemp I found, in practice, that when a note gets long and I found that I needed links from other note files to subsections, which is only supported by ID links, that it worked much better if I broke it up into multiple files, but it makes search slightly less convenient.

There's a way to create custom links so I could technically create a link that let's me link to a headline search in a particular node (rather than filename), but creating an ID for that case seems more canonical.

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