Incremental note-taking

Re:Incremental note-taking by arael on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @03:47AM (#27686034)

I have started with a similar approach but my deal breaker were math symbols and pictures.

Do you have any need to include drawings to illustrate some of the concepts?

How do you manage the math symbols and graphs, if you have any?

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Re:Incremental note-taking by CoderPuppy on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:03PM (#27690166)

For math symbols I use Unicode characters, I have XCompose shortcuts [0] to easily insert them. I'm currently using WinCompose to use the same shortcuts on Windows. This works fairly well for my use cases (programming language theory and undergrad math), but doesn't support the fancy layouts that LaTeX does (fractions, large sub/superscripts).

I don't have a good solution for graphs/pictures/drawings. I don't think I've ever needed to, if I did I think I would just put the image in a folder alongside the note (`YYYY-MM-DD-ext`).

[0] https://github.com/CoderPuppy/.files/blob/master/XCompose

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Re:Incremental note-taking by arael on Thursday July 01, 2021 @03:54AM (#27697179)

Very interesting! Thank you very much for your reply. I will try this approach. It would work very well with FZF for searching.

Which key are you using as Compose key?

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