

Vim is a powerful general purpose text editor that’s very extensible. Correcting spelling mistakes on the flyįor writing text and mathematical formulas in LaTeX, I use Vim.This blog post will focus on the first item: writing LaTeX.

Annotating pdf documents using LaTeX should be possible for when I want to write notes alongside a pdf document.adding a note, compiling all my notes, compiling the last two lectures, searching in notes, etc. Drawing figures should be almost as fast as the lecturer.Writing text and mathematical formulas in LaTeX should be as fast as the lecturer writing on a blackboard: no delay is acceptable.To make note taking using LaTeX viable, I had four goals in mind: These lecture notes - including figures - are made while attending the lecture and have not been edited afterwards. To give you an idea of what those notes look like, here are some examples: Which makes for a total of more than 1700 pages of notes. I started using LaTeX to write lecture notes in the second semester of my bachelor in mathematics, and I’ve been using it ever since, However, a lot has changed since then and I’d like to write a few blog posts explaining my workflow. There, I explained my workflow of taking lecture notes in LaTeX using Vim and how I draw figures in Inkscape. A while back I answered a question on Quora: Can people actually keep up with note-taking in Mathematics lectures with LaTeX.
