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Re:Pomodoro Timer on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:16PM (#34480382)
I prefer The Flow App for the Mac/iOS, for its the simplicity (yet just enough features) and lite on resources. https://flowapp.info Great customer support as well.
Regarding running the engine on iOS: Technically they do that now with their Wolfram Player App on the iOS. The calculations are done on the iPad and not sent to a server like the Wolfram Cloud app.
I recommend the outlines package in LaTeX.

I find it much easier to write:

    \begin{outline}
    \1 hello
    \1 world
      \2 the two indicates a second level.
    \end{outline}
Re:Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning on Monday August 27, 2018 @09:42AM (#17851426)
I found Anki the only software that can easily make flash cards using LaTeX. I typically have a lot of equations and I prefer to write my cards using the outlines package in LaTeX. It makes it very easy to write bulleted lists. https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/outlin...

In the latest version of Anki, the LaTeX is rendered using SVG and looks great on Retina and HiDPI screens without having large file sizes.

I know others who maintain their cards/latex in a text file and import the changes rather than working in the Anki software for creating and maintaining cards.

what are some practical uses for this if living in a pure R world?

Is this like BigMemory but for data frames?

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bigmemory/index.html

Thanks.