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> I found that there is no app that allows me to quickly mix together text, math formulas, code, images, sketches, graphs, and other kinds of media (yes, yes, I
by lewisl9029 10y ago
> I found that there is no app that allows me to quickly mix together text, math formulas, code, images, sketches, graphs, and other kinds of media (yes, yes, I hear you invoke the mighty LaTeX... but can you write correct LaTeX on-the-fly?).
This is where OneNote with a proper pen & digitizer screen really shines. It allows you to switch seamlessly between text and ink in your notes (it switches between text and ink mode automatically depending on the proximity of your pen tip), and attach any kind of multimedia you might need to your notes (including recordings that are time-synced with your note-taking, which I used often for lectures).
I bought a used HP TM2T with a Wacom pen & digitizer when I started college to use for note-taking and it was an amazing investment, allowing me to pretty much ditch pen and paper altogether when it comes to note-taking. And I was in an engineering program full of lectures involving long math equations and circuits diagrams that would have been impossible to draw in a timely manner without a pen.
Keeping all my notes in a proprietary format is still a scary prospect, but I haven't found any other note taking app that even approaches OneNote in terms of proper pen support and general usefulness.