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).

  • ghassan
    220·
    8 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.

    • spynetSOP
      60·
      8 months ago8 months ago

      Xournal++

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

      Thanks!

  • sin_free_for_00_days
    112·
    8 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.

    • atzanteolEnglish
      20·
      8 months ago

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

    • Chewt
      20·
      8 months ago

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

    • mvirts
      20·
      8 months ago

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

    • Atemu
      10·
      8 months ago8 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.