I have used obsidian and excallidraw for my note taking, especially excallidraw for math where I draw with my tablet. But since I started using emacs for programing I would like to move to org roam for school notes. However, I have not found a good alternative program for obsidians excallidraw plugin (I find gimp a bit to big for my purposes).

  • @[email protected]
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    2210 months ago

    I use Rnote to write freely on a big whiteboard and Xournal++ for taking notes over PDFs of lectures.

    Rnote has a much more modern and user-friendly interface while Xournal++ has more features and has been around for longer. I use both where I feel each excels.

  • @scharf_2x40
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    1710 months ago

    Have you checked out Xournal++ already?

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    810 months ago

    Gilles Castel (RIP) published a couple articles on taking math notes with Vim + LaTeX which I found eye-opening. In another article he posted about how he integrates Inkscape into the process. If you haven’t read the articles, they may be helpful for what you are doing.

    • @mvirts
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      210 months ago

      Never used it for notes, but yes inkscape. Inkscape is much more stable than it was in the past imho.

    • Atemu
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      10 months ago

      This is what I used for math lectures.

      This app can be configured to produce plain SVGs which can theoretically be embedded into org-mode documents and can easily be stored in git. I have always used it stand-alone though.

      It’s proprietary and the UI looks like an Android app from 10 years ago but it’s the best hand-drawing experience I’ve found on Linux.