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by tikhonj 5128 days ago
Off topic, but you could have done your notes in LaTeX as well. In fact, in my experience, using TeX for math formulas (I did a semester's worth of calculus notes in LaTeX) is actually faster than writing them out by hand (\unless I give up on trying to make the result readable at all, and maybe even then.

Admittedly, graphs and illustrations were an issue. In fact, I basically didn't bother with either. But just for text and math notation, LaTeX was awesome.

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I took my math and CS notes in LaTeX because I hated writing and wanted everything together in files that I had source control on, but I definitely didn't find it faster to type in the equations than write them out by hand, even with a fair bit of practice at Emacs keyboard shortcuts for common stuff.