Does anyone have recommendations for note taking software? Going to school right now. I've used mindforger (only real complaint was lack of spell checking could have been user error and I unfortunately lack the skills as of yet to contribute it), libre office, and word in the past. I'm currently using vim (plain) and taking notes in markdown so I'm less distracted with formatting and I can transfer near anywhere.
Mainly looking for the ability to keep the notes semi organized in a heirarchy linking is a plus.
@khird I've heard whispers of it but I have not looked to far into it. Is it a language of sorts to organize notes? What IDE do you use with it?
@ramob It's a typesetting markup language and the software to parse it. It's more designed for producing papers than taking notes, but I think it'd meet your needs given the other software you've used for the purpose.
I switched from Texstudio to Latexila a few years ago. The canonical recommendation for people who like WYSIWYG entry is Lyx.
@khird thanks I'll have to check it out!
Part of why I was using markdown was it had a pretty easy flow to memorize but I'm curious to try that now too. I'll have to check my repo for those.
@ramob hmmm, sounds like you might be looking for the ancient forgotten beast called file manager. It's hierarchical and links are usually just plain text (gf in vim to follow path under cursor). Nerdtree is popular one. I use vimfiler + unite.vim, which covers pretty much everything, safe copy/cut/paste, bulk rename, file search, grep in directory, file type associations, and probably a lot more with the new neovim versions (defx.nvim, denite.nvim).
@namark thanks I'll have to look into those. To be honest my vimrc is pretty baren so far.
@ramob what are your thoughts on LaTeX? It's strongly hierarchical and has linking through the hyperref package. The downside is that it's kind of verbose, which might be a disadvantage in real-time notes, but most decent IDEs for the language (e.g. latexila) should help mitigate this.