There’s some work in this space, such as Nicolas Rougier’s promising notebook-mode[1]. I’m convinced there would be an audience for an OrgBook app that philosop

There’s some work in this space, such as Nicolas Rougier’s promising notebook-mode[1]. I’m convinced there would be an audience for an OrgBook app that philosophically treated Emacs as an implementation detail. Give it more familiar keybindings, some out of the box nice looking themes, and configure the new context menu functionality as you suggest. Then package it up as something that can be run and installed with or without an existing Emacs. It’s hard to imagine experienced Emacsers wanting to lead a project that solves a problem they don’t have, but the community is very friendly so whoever took it on would get plenty of help. [1] https://github.com/rougier/notebook-mode https://github.com/rougier/notebook-mode