Getting started with ESP-IDF

[mave25]

Hi,
I have used Arduino IDE for quite some time to do ESP Programming. I would like to move away from that and do some real embedded programming with ESP-IDF I started with basic guide available here.https://idf.espressif.com/ Although now I don't understand how to start fresh and start coding for my new projects ? I was wondering maybe figuring out a proper IDE would be the first thing because for the basic blink program I used the notepad to edit my code.
which IDE should I use? which is beginner friendly ?

thanks.

[ESP_Sprite]

You have a choice there, we support many of them, but the one that most people seem to go with is VSCode + the ESP-IDF integration. See here for more info.