vim-rsi VS clever-f.vim

that however may lead to suffering. You will have to change a lot of defaults and this can make you unable to work with default Vim. Try out https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi and see if that will suffice.

I use vim.rsi by te legendary tpope.

You can you this plugin to get the same mappings in insert mode for Vim:

https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi

You may be able to emulate it with cnoremap. See vim-rsi which is the set -o emacs version of what you want (but it also applies in insert mode).

I heavily rely on tpope/vim-rsi, which will provide you with to hop to the end of the line in insert mode

Look no further than the vim plugin master himself, Tim Pope: https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi

I would just define whatever "standard text-editing keyboard shortcuts" you want in insert mode, and then just use insert mode as your "vim for note-taking". Kind of like Tim Pope's RSI but with the "standard" key bindings you want instead of bindings based on Emacs/readline.

Looks like easy-motion makes buffer changes, but I didn't know about f/t mode for sneak. In sneak related there is also clever-f which looks like exactly what I want

You can try something like this https://github.com/rhysd/clever-f.vim

It's not exactly what you want, but try out clever-f. Instead of ; and , to go back and forth, you use f and F again. For example finding the 3rd a in a line, you'd press faff rather than fa;;.

clever-f plugin in my case.

clever-f works almost the way I want it to. (It extends f by highlighting, and then you repeatedly tap f to move to the next occurrence. You have to do something else before hitting f again to search for a new char.)

clever-f

I'm using a QMK home-row mod keyboard and I used to have this issue as well. But turned out it helped me to be a better vim user since now I use better navigation methods. For one, J and K are mapped to 5J and 5K (as always). Then I used a plugin called ggandor/lightspeed.nvim to move to different locations. And I use rhysd/clever-f.vim for better horizontal movements.

rhysd/clever-f.vim: Extended f, F, t and T key mappings for Vim.?

Also consider clever-f to allow f and t to be repeated, or, for a bigger reshaping of your movements, [lightspeed](https://github.com/ggandor/lightspeed.nvim], which integrates clever-f among other.