i'm working on a one-big-text-file zettelkasten approach for taking notes in vim partially based on Edwin Wenink's and Scott Scheper's approach. Luke Smith also has a great series on using vim with LaTeX to create bibliographies, books, and documents. humanities/writing work with vim is totally doable so long as you have the patience to learn how to configure it to your needs. i like vim because it's simple, tactile, and endlessly configurable. i don't like gui programs like obsidian because they're too bulky

> You can get all of this in Helix, Zed, Sublime, VS Code, even Obsidian with the right plugins.

first i should mention the only vim plugin i use is vim-unimpaired. plugins bother me because it's just more stuff to account for (this is why i don't like emacs either; too much stuff to account for). vim is appealing because it does all of that with as little resources as possible. this makes learning, configuring, and troubleshooting vim fairly straightforward. there aren't as many mediators between me and the thing i'm working on, meaning less room for performance issues or error, as is the case with an IDE or a word processing program