I keep getting stuck! I want to learn and use Emacs for my reading and writing but I keep falling down the configuration rabbit hole. I have made a number of attempts to create a vanilla Emacs configuration but rarely get further than Prot's's recommended decent defaults (Emacs: decent defaults I shared with Sacha Chua, Emacs: a basic and capable configuration and Emacs: organise your init file (outline-minor-mode or Org literate config)).
So my plan is now to spend a few weeks working with Peter Prevos' Emacs Writing Studio.
I hope to tune this to exploit MacOS using some of the advice from Emacs on macOS.
I also plan to focus on using Gnu Hyperbole under the guidance of Charlie Holland's series HyWiki: Zero Markup Hypertext, Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse, and Hyperbole HyRolo: Search, Retrieve and Insert Records, Not Lines. I also want to make use of Charlie's article Annotate-in-Place Notes with Emacs and org-remark.
Let's see how this goes!