Favorite way to typeset mathematical notes?

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I do a lot of mathematical research and find myself often wanting to create short write ups that involve equations and references to share with collaborators.While I am quite good with LaTeX, I find it lacking for this purpose. Setting up a base document, importing all my packages, getting a sane layout, etc. takes time away from the actual writing I want to do. On the other end, things like Notion have LaTeX support as an afterthought and it is quite annoying to write documents in it when there are a lot of equations. Moreover, I am not sure if there's a good way to add Bibtex references I want them in those note apps.Have any of you found a good, LaTeX-lite solution for churning out quick research note documents?

btzo · Accepted Answer

I use Obsidian for this.Basically you have a markdown file and add latex when needed. It's not the best tool if you need to format the document in a very specific way, but for personal notes works really well

landosaari · Answer

There is the option of incorporating vim with LaTeX.
Gilles Castel goes over this in [0]
Results of lecture notes can be seen here [1]
[0] https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/#vim-and-latex
[1] https://castel.dev/notes

dibujaleojos · Answer

What about using Overleaf.com? I find it takes away the setup part and allows you to start typing in LaTeX right away. The downside is that it is an online tool.

RGamma · Answer

I found TeXmacs (not related to (La)TeX) to be quite nice for basic stuff, but haven't dug too deep. Worth trying though.

Favorite way to typeset mathematical notes?

I use Obsidian for this.Basically you have a markdown file and add latex when needed. It's not the best tool if you need to format the document in a very specific way, but for personal notes works really well

There is the option of incorporating vim with LaTeX.Gilles Castel goes over this in [0]Results of lecture notes can be seen here [1][0] https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/#vim-and-latex[1] https://castel.dev/notes

What about using Overleaf.com? I find it takes away the setup part and allows you to start typing in LaTeX right away. The downside is that it is an online tool.

I found TeXmacs (not related to (La)TeX) to be quite nice for basic stuff, but haven't dug too deep. Worth trying though.

I use Obsidian for this.
Basically you have a markdown file and add latex when needed. It's not the best tool if you need to format the document in a very specific way, but for personal notes works really well

There is the option of incorporating vim with LaTeX.
Gilles Castel goes over this in [0]
Results of lecture notes can be seen here [1]
[0] https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/#vim-and-latex
[1] https://castel.dev/notes