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by cben 3810 days ago
Yep. For notes there is little justification for the full complexity of LaTeX, the most one needs is islands of LaTeX math. And you don't even need TeX installed — html with mathjax/katex is more flexible most of the time (but Pandoc will easily convert to latex/beamer when you need them).

I'm cataloguing math support in markdown tools at https://github.com/cben/mathdown/wiki/math-in-markdown (help welcome). If you don't know where to start, the first to check out are probably StackEdit, Atom + https://discuss.atom.io/t/using-atom-for-academic-writing/19....

I have a theory that a single pane styled in-place is nicer for quick writing than 2 source+preview pane. Typora, Texts.io, and my own https://mathdown.net do that.

If you do want full latex, try Overleaf.com, which has "rich text" mode where many constructs (sections, lists, math) are styled in-place (you could even hide the PDF pane).