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I took notes on my courses in LaTeX, and I didn't find it detrimental. If anything, it was way faster to write and understand them later. And it is easier to wr

I took notes on my courses in LaTeX, and I didn't find it detrimental. If anything, it was way faster to write and understand them later. And it is easier to write whatever you need to keep track of the lecture and then modify it later (or during the lecture) than to have some paper notes where you need to first complete them and then organize them. Not to mention that it's far easier to collaborate with LaTeX notes than paper. For example, we split the courses between friends so only one took LaTeX notes, the rest paid attention or took quick annotations on paper to later complete the notes.

jonnycomputer 5y ago
The notation in the lecture couldn't have been that complex then. Or the pace that rapid. What about diagrams?
- gjulianm 5y ago
  For complex notation I had a keyboard distribution with symbols available (e.g., α is alt-a, ∩ is alt + shift + i, ∈ is alt + shift + [) and also made commands to abbreviate, which made it faster than writing (and more consistent). The pace depended on the lecture, but I had no issues keeping up with the teachers speaking/writing pace. If the class was being too complex and I couldn't understand and write in my own words, I just went into "memory dump mode" and wrote whatever and then understood and reformatted it later. For diagrams I had several options. Simple ones were easy enough to do with Tikz (maybe I didn't get it perfectly on the first try but good enough to fix later), diagrams that had a repeated structure were done with commands, and then for the ones that I couldn't do on the fly I just either wrote the description in text and did them later, or did a drawing in a notebook/phone/took a picture and then replicated it later with Tikz. I could also take diagrams from the web and paste the image. If you want examples, we actually had all our note PDFs in a shared Dropbox folder [1] (in Spanish, though). Not all of them are mine, but there are a good bunch of them where I'm the main author. I'm specially proud of some notes, like the differential geometry course [2] or topology [3] with a good amount of diagrams (for a math course). 1: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AADuRd3CoU6UUCZMtK0GdEtPa?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AADuRd3CoU6UUCZMt... 2: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AAA1SKV3JLkVPX2ncU1op7Hva/GeometriaDiferencial.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AAA1SKV3JLkVPX2nc... 3: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AABNb9rTsaRzc-3xPTWsc743a/TopologiaI.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AABNb9rTsaRzc-3xP...
  - jonnycomputer 5y ago
    well done

jonnycomputer 5y ago

The notation in the lecture couldn't have been that complex then. Or the pace that rapid. What about diagrams?

gjulianm 5y ago
For complex notation I had a keyboard distribution with symbols available (e.g., α is alt-a, ∩ is alt + shift + i, ∈ is alt + shift + [) and also made commands to abbreviate, which made it faster than writing (and more consistent). The pace depended on the lecture, but I had no issues keeping up with the teachers speaking/writing pace. If the class was being too complex and I couldn't understand and write in my own words, I just went into "memory dump mode" and wrote whatever and then understood and reformatted it later. For diagrams I had several options. Simple ones were easy enough to do with Tikz (maybe I didn't get it perfectly on the first try but good enough to fix later), diagrams that had a repeated structure were done with commands, and then for the ones that I couldn't do on the fly I just either wrote the description in text and did them later, or did a drawing in a notebook/phone/took a picture and then replicated it later with Tikz. I could also take diagrams from the web and paste the image. If you want examples, we actually had all our note PDFs in a shared Dropbox folder [1] (in Spanish, though). Not all of them are mine, but there are a good bunch of them where I'm the main author. I'm specially proud of some notes, like the differential geometry course [2] or topology [3] with a good amount of diagrams (for a math course). 1: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AADuRd3CoU6UUCZMtK0GdEtPa?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AADuRd3CoU6UUCZMt... 2: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AAA1SKV3JLkVPX2ncU1op7Hva/GeometriaDiferencial.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AAA1SKV3JLkVPX2nc... 3: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AABNb9rTsaRzc-3xPTWsc743a/TopologiaI.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AABNb9rTsaRzc-3xP...
- jonnycomputer 5y ago
  well done