Recommendation of lightweight drawing application for math lectures?
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).
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.
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.
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.
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