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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

• lnwlebjel 3y ago
  Second the use of overleaf.com. I find the fact that it's online as an upside, making it as easy to use as google docs (ie from any of my computers, and to share with collaborators). Given your use case, I'd suggest creating a template for notes that you can use over and over, significantly reducing overhead. There are ways to keep it in a repo and link to it if you want to get fancy. As an academic this also lowers the bar to converting notes into research papers which is a plus. You mentioned bibtex, which for references is also fairly straightforward to do on overleaf. I keep all of mine in a one .bib file in a repo and link to it making the incorporation of references into a document very easy. If you're at a university or in a scientific society (eg IEEE) you might have free access to the premium features - worth looking into.