As your question is currently **very unspecific**, it's hard to propose you suggest any detailed solution :(
Maybe you need to keep in mind, mind that JOSM looks/behaves more like a **professional GIS editor** (geo-informationsystem) (geo information system) than an simple POI editor. It offers a lot of possibilities and extensions, but don't get confused, at the beginning you just need 1..2 features.
So if you like that a dobermann get's your friend, want to befriend that doberman, you need to **play with him** it** and go forward step by step:
- [http://en.flossmanuals.net/openstreetmap/editing-with-josm/][1]
- [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Video_Training][2]
- [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Guide][3]
You just need to spend some time and allow yourself to do make mistakes and learn, as everybody here in the OSM universe did before ;)
If you are still unhappy or feel that JOSM doesn't fit for your tasks, suit you, you might also check out some [different [alternative editors][4].
If you like to post what's something about your **specific problems**, problem**, anybody here or at perhaps in your [local area][5] is willing to help you to do the challenge :)
P.S: Indeed Personally I feel that JOSM became has become very user friendly during the past years and has a very nice usability compared with other tools at in the freeGIS ecosystem...
[1]: http://en.flossmanuals.net/openstreetmap/editing-with-josm/
[2]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Video_Training
[3]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Guide
[4]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Comparison_of_editors
[5]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact
