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Does anybody use LaTeX to take notes, especially during class? If not, what do you use, especially when you need to write down equations?

I do and have been doing for a couple of years. I’m a student of Mathematics so equations and diagrams are my bread and butter. \LaTeX makes it all so easy and actually beautiful to see. My handwriting is to say the least not the best and it degrades after the first hour of the lecture. The solution I found was to take the notes and follow the lesson as usual, than come back at home and rewrite my notes in \LaTeX so I have a good resource to study from, one that is nice to look at and organized. I currently can’t typeset my notes in real time, I’m just a little too slow to type and I much prefer understanding what the professor is talking about rather than concentrating a bit too much on the notes. Below are some screenshot of my notes of the courses of Geometry II and Analysis II I have to thank Gilles Castel for his tutorials on How he’s able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim. Between those scripts and some practice I feel like I now have a good setup and I actually quite like the result. I have to note that in my class some people actually do take notes on Word. I honestly don’t know how but from what I saw, t are at least one lesson behind, after all \LaTeX was made to typeset scientific papers and it does a great job at that.

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Of course if you use notepad, it might not be an issue, but if you do want to write in your notes it might be wise to check out what's in the .txt or .txt.txt files you are about to do, if they aren't in LaTeX files. I recommend the best type for notes though is \LaTeX notes, which is the most useful and pretty much any LaTeX program can open them. For now, I’ll only use \LaTeX notes and I think it works best for note-taking, but in the future, I'll have to check a little about the notes that I keep, and which LaTeX can understand. In your opinion, what is the best LaTeX note-taking application? I am a bit confused. Thanks, I love LaTeX for its ability to create pretty and organized equations and figures. However, I feel it sometimes misses the point of what you are.