I suffered from this too, I felt that I was wasting most of my time
configuring and experimenting on emacs, and I questionated myself a lot.
In the meantime, I learned a lot about so many things about software,
organization and life. I think emacs and orgmode helped me to be a
better person. I keep spending too much time configuring [1], but also
looks like I reached a peak, and that I am confortable with my current
configuration, and helps me to my day to day.
Yes, I spent too much hours with something that I never used again, once
a day that I need something similar to that... (That also inspired me on
how sometimes you feel something is needed in certain piece of software
but then the users don't use it)
emacs (and orgmode), allows to customize it to your needs in a way
difficult to find in other software.
Let me recommend these books that might help you organize and handle
addiction:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Habits
- Indistractable Nir Eyal (2019)
And finally, here you have my configuration [2]
Hugs,
pinmacs
[1] as you see, since 2022, I started measuring time I dedicate to this
stuff (in my case, is a project tagged as continuous improvement, which
80% is tweaking emacs and orgmode), do you do that? writing on what you
do, helps you to get conscious on what you do
2022: 132h
2023: 266h
2024: 322h
2025: 271h
2026: 39h
[2] https://codeberg.org/pedroberg/pinmacs-emacs-config
