What should I use to take notes in college?

• logseq

  544 29,702 9.9 Clojure

  A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.

  

I would recommend Logseq; it's very similar to Obsidian (offline markdown editor, link-based, draws pretty graphs etc.), but with some features that can make it incredibly powerful if you put in some effort - and with how long college is, you might wanna go for something that can grow with you.

• typst

  110 28,218 9.9 Rust

  A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.

  

Check out https://typst.app/ too, has a cli if you don't want to use the website. Much easier syntax for quick writing then LaTeX imo

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• xournalpp

  221 10,241 9.5 C++

  Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

  

you can try xournal++ https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp

• github-orgmode-tests

  245 147 4.8

  This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files

I'm also going to study this year an I'm going to use Arch + Emacs + orgmode which is builtin to emacs.

• rnote

  46 6,007 9.5 Rust

  Sketch and take handwritten notes.

You can use Rnote too: https://github.com/flxzt/rnote

• obsidian-releases

  1,652 7,956 9.9 JavaScript

  Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

  

I am a CS student, and I usually write notes using Obsidian.

• tesseract-ocr

  120 58,022 8.9 C++

  Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

  

If you go this route, then using an app that can convert your handwritten notes to a digital format (indexed text), will give you a good balance between cognitive processing and efficient data storage/management; you can likely find many such apps on the App Store or Google Play. If you're interested in something more hands-on, on Arch you can probably experiment with Tesseract OCR in an interesting way (Example).

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• pandoc

  420 32,396 9.8 Haskell

  Universal markup converter

Write notes in markdown files for simplicity, use https://pandoc.org/ for post processing

• doomemacs

  152 18,535 9.8 Emacs Lisp

  An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker

  

Of course, the real power-user move would be to use Emacs with Org-Roam, but you have to be prepared to dive deep into the rabbit-hole. If you don't, it won't be worth it. If you do, you'll be handsomely rewarded. I know because I have, and I can highly recommend it if you like tinkering with and customising your tools. IMO, Doom Emacs is the way to go nowadays.

• org-roam

  147 5,328 3.5 Emacs Lisp

  Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode

  

Of course, the real power-user move would be to use Emacs with Org-Roam, but you have to be prepared to dive deep into the rabbit-hole. If you don't, it won't be worth it. If you do, you'll be handsomely rewarded. I know because I have, and I can highly recommend it if you like tinkering with and customising your tools. IMO, Doom Emacs is the way to go nowadays.

• tup

  23 1,139 7.7 C

  Tup is a file-based build system.

Ten years ago, I used reStructuredText and its support for LaTeX math and syntax highlighting. I used tup (tup monitor -a -f) to take care of running rst2html on save.

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