delve VS zettelkasten-mode

Don't think I've seen a package that you're referring to, but maybe delve could be a substitute?

I think maybe folks are misunderstanding what you mean by 5. I recall that notion automatically generates tables for you based on some content. If that's what you're looking for https://github.com/publicimageltd/delve might be the package for you.

When I see dashboards based on content I think delve.

If you're using org-roam already, might be worth looking into delve.

Not sure what you mean on the first one. The second one's easiest solution is probably org-transclusion as what you're asking is to translude notes. But other packages with a similar concept of collecting your notes and adding them in a separate buffer are things such as delve or (shameless self plug) zetteldesk. I got no clue how to do the third one. I agree with you on that todos should work in more places, but I also don't know how to fix it. For the one with the calendar, I am pretty sure calfw has an extension that does that. I think calfw-org?

Sounds useful! So I understand you let the user add notes to a special org mode buffer which you then call a ' desktop', right? I have written a similar package for collecting org roam nodes called Delve. It uses a special list view to collect the stuff, however. Your approach is more direct, right? I have considered that approach, too, but I thought it would be nice to have something to navigate from link to its back links to their back links etc... apart from that, I'd actually prefer your kind of approach since it seems more emacsy.

I think you might be looking for delve. It allows to create collections of notes and operate on them.

I tried to do this on top of deft, but unfortunately deft is designed as a user-focused package and can't be reasonably used as a library. I tried, mind you (warning: this package is very broken and hacky), but even if I had gotten that to work I think I would end up wanting a richer index and pre-processing of input data (when entered into the zettelkasten index, I should be able to parse out all forward-links for example, and store them separately so they're searchable without a regex over full-text).