"4 text files that go from vague life goals down to concrete hourly tasks ..."
I do the same thing but I keep all of them in a single text file and hide sections with the "fold" feature of vim.
I tried last year to dive deep into markdown and emacs and evil mode, blah blah blah, but in the end the only thing I really needed was the folding feature of vim.
What makes it work for me is folding based on any kind of indent (tab or space) and fold-toggle with the 'tab' key.
The indent folding I use is at 0xRKTFUG[1] and the tab-as-fold-toggle (along with a few other folding items) is at 0x3HS2RD.
I do the same thing but I keep all of them in a single text file and hide sections with the "fold" feature of vim.
I tried last year to dive deep into markdown and emacs and evil mode, blah blah blah, but in the end the only thing I really needed was the folding feature of vim.
What makes it work for me is folding based on any kind of indent (tab or space) and fold-toggle with the 'tab' key.
The indent folding I use is at 0xRKTFUG[1] and the tab-as-fold-toggle (along with a few other folding items) is at 0x3HS2RD.
[1] https://0x.co/RKTFUG ... and so on ...