I have added a script that automates installation of packages that I describe in this guide up to Chapter 6 on ORB.

Let me know how you go.

Part 1

1. Get Emacs for Windows
2. Use Emacs to write some text (including copy & paste)
3. Set up Org-roam (including sqlite3)
4. Improve quality-of-life with your font, theme, and minimal select packages
5. Some more quality-of-life improvements for your typography -- font variations and line-spacing -- and other things

The config file at the end of Part 1 is located in this repo, too. Refer to its history if you wish to see the incremental changes as we move along advanced chapters.

Part 2

6. Set up Org-ref and Org-roam-bibtex (ORB)
7. Export to MS Word
8. Set up a spell checker (Hunspell, including how to get it)

Part 3

I consider the following "extra" features because they require a certain level of "hacking the system". I suggest that you selectively decide whether or not you would like to take on the challenges, depending on your familiarity wth the technical stuff on Windows.

9. Set up org-protocol, org-roam-graph, and org-roam-server (incl. Windows registry)
10. Work with PDF files in Emacs with PDF-Tools, Org-noter, and ORB
11. (maybe) How to swap CapsLock with Ctrl
12. (maybe) Export to PDF

At the end of chapter 6 on ORB, you will get to this point where you can use ORB.

Chaper 7 is now published. It demonstrates a way to export your Org notes to MS Word. Resultant .docx files look like this:

Chapter 9 lets you play with interactive visualisation of your notes and their relationships via org-roam-server:

Chapter 10 provides an easy step-by-step instruction on how to install PDF-Tools on Windows, and configure Org-noter to work with ORB.

This work is licensed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for source code and documentation excerpts from Emacs and Org-roam project.