awesome-emacs VS org-web-tools

“A community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and other items.” https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs

I've used emacs for about the same (started with microemacs in the 80s). I also had an extremely crufty init.el and recently decided to start over. I compared 19 emacs distributions (from this list and this r/emacs post). I looked at

But, to be honest, I think it simply is not for everyone. But sure one thing is lacking (as far as I know): a metatutorial. Like a big "chart" telling people what can be done with Emacs (with a few examples), something like https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs for newcomers.

Awesome-emqcs is a great resource for knowing what packages are there: https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs

For packages, Checking what people in the community commonly use, such as in https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs/ or checking packages for review in Doom Emacs helps a lot in selection. There are also great guides, such as Kristoffer Balintona's https://kristofferbalintona.me/categories/guides/. Personally, my bias in selecting packagges is towards the ones that integrate well with built-in Emacs functionalities. I could provide you a list if you want.

Take it slowly, check some packages that seem like they might be useful to you: (check https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs out for example).

Awesome Emacs for utility-oriented packages

Awesome Emacs, a community driven list of useful Emacs packages, utilities and libraries

There is also org-web-tools which use pandoc to convert html to org-mode. You can use pandoc also in scripts.

There is also another great alphapapa package org-web-tools for those who only want org-mode format, or don’t use MacOS.

[org-web-tools] https://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools

You can use https://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools it can save a web pages as an org files and has some extra cool functionality.

Not sure what you mean by "filing cabinet." Org does have file attachments. See also https://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools for archiving Web pages with Org.

Also, not exactly related to your question, but you may find it useful: See https://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools, which also makes it easy to attach Web page archives.

Press c l to choose my commonplace-book link-capture template, which uses org-web-tools to insert an Org link with the Web page's title as the description: