Hadn't heard of org-super-agenda, but looks great. Thanks!
https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda
> I've also started using org-roam and I'm loving it for capturing my thoughts.
I've tried with Org-Roam but I find the idea of breaking thoughts into little bits very awkward when I mostly work with philosophical books, where the priority is the relation of a concept to the others in the same book, then to the author, then maybe school, then to other authors. I haven't figured out how to model that in org-roam, but maybe there is a way? I also like to divide my notes into folders based on their author (awkward for multiple authors, I admit), but org-roam seems built to keep everything in one massive folder. I just use plain org files and grep around for relevant other stuff.
> the customizability lets me never be satisfied and spend more time screwing with stuff than actually working.
Yeah, I hear that. The one above is the most stable workflow I've come up with after numerous iterations. Keeping it as simple as possible, basically a super powered todo list or bullet journal, has helped, i think.