I dump my notes in three categories: - Links that I find interesting which I'd like to archive: https://bollu.github.io/todo.html https://bollu.github.io/todo.

I dump my notes in three categories: - Links that I find interesting which I'd like to archive: https://bollu.github.io/todo.html https://bollu.github.io/todo.html - Short pieces that are accessible to folks with background. This goes on the blog: https://bollu.github.io/ https://bollu.github.io/. Visualizations of theorems, which are far scarcer than I like on the internet, also go up on the blog. - Long form notes from books and courses goes into a notes repo where I write up stuff in latex: https://github.com/bollu/notes/blob/master/algebra/main.pdf https://github.com/bollu/notes/blob/master/algebra/main.pdf [This is an example of the notes I've been taking while attending AGITTOC: Algebraic geometry in the time of covid]. The latex file: https://github.com/bollu/notes/blob/master/algebra/main.tex https://github.com/bollu/notes/blob/master/algebra/main.tex - The blog and links are powered by latex-enabled markdown. (i) blog https://github.com/bollu/bollu.github.io/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/bollu/bollu.github.io/blob/master/README.... (ii) todo: https://github.com/bollu/bollu.github.io/blob/master/todo.md https://github.com/bollu/bollu.github.io/blob/master/todo.md All of these tools are motivated by a principle of being fast and easy to edit; Otherwise, I literally can't take notes because it doesn't feel as fluid. So I have symlinks to README.md and todo.md in my home folder, and similarly for whatever course I am attending currently. I edit very little, I write down the idea I am interested in and then git push. I feel this system works well for me. I'm able to go back and review ideas that I had seen before and polish them up. It's fast, easy to write, upload, and share. I've tried using other elaborate methods [org-mode, evernote, ...] but none of them had the simplicity of: 1. Open a plaintext file, wherever you are [I am always in a position to open a plaintext file, whether from my IDE or from the command line]. 2. Start writing 3. $$$ So I strongly recommend some system that is as simple as "open a file and start writing". Hope this hepls.