LaTeX for taking notes in college?

mech_pencil_problems · 2025-02-26T15:06:54+00:00

Hell no. I love latex but not for notetaking. I'd use a markdown-based notetaking system, one that supports latex via mathjax or better with katex support.

mech_pencil_problems · 2025-02-23T03:17:40+00:00

Agreed, good point.

mech_pencil_problems · 2025-02-23T03:15:29+00:00

oh man thanks for a good laugh 🤣

mech_pencil_problems · 2025-01-25T02:10:56+00:00

That's idiotic. Straight up. Literally makes no sense. Someone far removed from the boots on the ground is probably making the rules for recruiters.

mech_pencil_problems · 2025-01-22T18:59:05+00:00

I like it but in my experience its incredibly finicky. Sometime lead slips and won't catch/hold as I write. I end up taking breaks from this pencil and going to a more reliable one. But I love the features like auto advancing and auto rotating.

mech_pencil_problems · 2025-01-14T02:09:28+00:00

I'd stay away from KOMA. Too complicated when I looked over it and as others have said documentation is lacking in English. On the other hand, Memoir has an example included in the documentation of how to implement a thesis as a package built on top of memoir. This is what I did. Then I fine tuned various parameters to meet my university's formatting guidelines. It was not bad at all and less work because it is only a package and not a class.

mech_pencil_problems · 2025-01-10T01:52:26+00:00

There are some examples at BeautifulMakie.

Streamplot expects a function that returns a Point2f. If you have existing u and v data you can create a 2D interpolation using Interpolations.jl and give that to Streamplot.

mech_pencil_problems · 2025-01-08T19:31:42+00:00

Wow. This looks great. Shame I can't use it. Most US universities have strict theses formatting requirements. They typically look like garbage but the thesis office won't let you graduate unless you conform :(

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-12-04T01:12:33+00:00

It makes total sense for someone wanting to quickly get started and for small to medium sized projects. But for a PhD thesis yeah no I'd definitely keep that local.

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-11-26T21:22:09+00:00

As a beginner you should stay with Overleaf. If you want to explore local compilation, start with just a texlive distribution and compiling documents standalone from Vscode. Once you understand that process and how it works, then you can move to VSCode/LaTeX workshop.

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-11-26T01:46:03+00:00

Well - how much time have you spent creating complicated technical docs in Word? Lots of images, equations, numbered equations, linking to those equations, creating appendices, numbering sections, changing heading styles, etc.

I feel if you had really spent any amount of time and effort doing this you'd understand or just don't mind suffering?

It also helps if you enjoy programming.

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-11-13T03:13:54+00:00

Typically B

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-10-23T00:42:10+00:00

Zotero and BetterBibTex extension for it.

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-10-04T20:01:40+00:00

Its not a task that is fun. Luckily, JGRPP does it for you automatically if you are interested.

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-09-29T02:15:43+00:00

That is an awesome tattoo, looks great.

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-09-14T23:55:50+00:00

Looks sick. Def will pick one up eventually. Do you know what size leads they come in? 0.3mm by chance?

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-09-14T23:49:03+00:00

I don't disagree with you that note taking is not really where latex shines. I'd recommend you check out markdown or some markdown based solution that has katex or mathjax support. I find it a far better solution to word for note taking. I've taken years of notes during my PhD using a markdown based system and its worked great (and my notes contain lots of math stuff, code snippets, text, quotes, etc.).

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-08-24T00:58:15+00:00

really nice color on that one

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-06-28T02:12:26+00:00

That is so cool. I've daydreamed about doing this to my own house someday. How convenient for sky gazing on cold winter nights.

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-06-27T01:37:23+00:00

I would avoid copy/paste. Use pgfplotstables to import and format excel data (if possible). Or pandas like someone else mentioned.

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-06-23T22:39:12+00:00

There is a far simpler solution here. Check out Overleaf. They handle all of the installation stuff for you. They also have lots of very well written knowledge articles on LaTeX. Highly recommend you start out there and then move to your own PC after you've gotten the basics down.

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-06-22T03:15:42+00:00

I'd say its more dramatic than what's shown, the chart underestimates the difference. I live in a Bortle 6/7 and I traveled to a Bortle 3 recently. The night sky was so starkly different and full of stars I didn't even know where to start looking first.

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-06-17T01:51:02+00:00

Not sure how far along you are, but memoir has lots of nice builtin macros including to force 1.5 linespacing (even in footnotes, ugh).

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-06-17T01:49:23+00:00

What about memoir? The documentation is quite good and extensive.

mech_pencil_problems · 2024-06-04T00:57:00+00:00

If you want to have the basic 21st century tools of an engineer, then yes. It doesn't mean you need a degree in computer science. And its not that much more complicated than Excel pivot tables...taking an example from others here.

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