Ask HN: Which tool do you use to take math-heavy notes?

Posted by Eugeleo on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:18PM
from the ask-hn dept.

For context: I'm looking for the best tool that I could utilize to write my college notes. I've read about TiddlyWiki, Notable, Typora (and other markdown editors)... But can't decide which would be the best and don't have enough time to try them all.

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Re:Ask HN: Which tool do you use to take math-heavy notes? by rayraegah on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:44PM (#18926795)

I took most math heavy notes in markdown with LaTeX. Sometimes, I used google sheets. Lately I've been using Observable[1].

[1] https://beta.observablehq.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Which tool do you use to take math-heavy notes? by mhh__ on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @02:50PM (#18924348)

I can be quite quick in Tex, and a modern surface or ipad is very good but to be completely honest paper is still king.

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Re:Ask HN: Which tool do you use to take math-heavy notes? by ISNIT on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:44PM (#18913102)

Math Notepad is quite nice: http://mathnotepad.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Which tool do you use to take math-heavy notes? by a-saleh on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @07:56AM (#18920373)

a) paper and pencil

b) once I had enough skill in typesetting in LaTeX, I was often just typing Tex in vim directly.

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Re:Ask HN: Which tool do you use to take math-heavy notes? by yesenadam on Thursday January 17, 2019 @08:45PM (#18936367)

LaTeX, with TikZ for diagrams.

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