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My word. That's one hell of a cargo-cult maker mindset gone insane. And if you plan on using that for work, oh well. You don't want "roast", you want confirmation in the sense of suggestions for improvement.
100% cargo cult / "I use Arch linux" mindset
I'm an office worker who is way more productive in Office365 than emacs. And for that purpose OneNote poops all over org.
That said, for home-life orgaisation and project tracking, org works pretty well for me.
Setup suggestions are totally welcome, I do run emacs on all my devices.
I'd be super interested to hear why you're more productive in onenote given you presumably have experience with both org and one note.
I'll do my best to explain.
I have given work presentations using org / reveal.js, and taken conference notes in org, but in a nutshell I find OneNote just easier to use and more flexible in a Windows / knowledge work environment:
I have 3 or so years experience using org (daily on Android, weekly in emacs), and 5+ with OneNote. I learned OneNote when I learned GTD, and org came later.
So I do have greater experience with OneNote, and find it does much of what org does (tags, todo / calendar tasks). A lot of the features are comparable.
I heavily use "find tags" in OneNote, to find todo, awaiting etc tasks from among my projects and find that an effective tag-based search. It's not an org-agenda replacement, but
In my work environment OneNote does a few things out the box my current org setup doesnt:
Is installed by default on pretty much any knowledge workers work machine, no admin requests etc required;
Integrates with O365, so I can:
Accepts any input and will display it WYSWIG. So I can treat each project as a page, and dump documents in there (either embedded or "printed"), screenshots, diagrams etc, in whatever way I need to - and even scribble all over that with diagrams, arrows etc using a windows ink pen. All the while using tags to give context to items;
as a result of the above, OneNote allows a note to be very flexibly formatted. Many of mine are 2 columns:
That said I've had WSLg a week or so now, and that level of integration between emacs and Windows is really nice, so things might change.
I hope that helps explain - if I'm doing things in ON that org could do for me with a setup change I'm all for learning how