> The rendering reminds me of typeset math from the 60s I'd like to congratulate the author on building something like this. It obviously serves a niche, and r

> The rendering reminds me of typeset math from the 60s I'd like to congratulate the author on building something like this. It obviously serves a niche, and represents an approach to that is useful. That said, there is a trade-off to giving up beautiful math rendering. Aesthetics in math does matter for all but the roughest of jots -- even if you never show your jots to anyone. When I was in academia, I kept my jots in a single continuous LaTeX file. I was fluent in LaTeX so I could jot down math almost faster than I could write them down on paper (keyboard + LaTeX macros + rapid copy-paste of repeated structures helped -- you wouldn't believe how much time you can save by making say "\sum_i^n\sum_j^m" a macro in index-heavy fields like mine). I threw snippets and stuff into it, and because it was so beautiful, I would regularly review it and coalesce new ideas from it. Also, for the kind of math I was doing, I needed more symbols and structures than was supported, so I had to pull in packages. But the result was a set of notes that, for me, was pleasant to use. Render time? 3s on avg. Good typeset is important, even if only psychologically.