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Recommendation of lightweight drawing application for math lectures? (programming.dev)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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).

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Have you checked out Xournal++ already?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Xournal++

It looks great, I'm definitely gonna try it!

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It was this comment where I learned that Gilles Castel had passed away :/ what a loss

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That's pretty amazing. His notes look like textbooks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] possiblylinux127 7 points 9 months ago

Xournal++ should work well

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I find GeoGebra a handy solution.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

http://www.styluslabs.com/

Maybe try Write?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

If you use org mode, you can use this https://github.com/misohena/el-easydraw. Its a basic drawing tool in emacs.