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).

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ghassan@lemm.ee · 23 pts · 2y

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.

scharf_2x40@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Have you checked out Xournal++ already?

spynetS@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2y

Xournal++

It looks great, I'm definitely gonna try it!

Thanks!

sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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.

mvirts@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Never used it for notes, but yes inkscape. Inkscape is much more stable than it was in the past imho.

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

That's pretty amazing. His notes look like textbooks.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 2y

Xournal++ should work well

opo@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y

I find GeoGebra a handy solution.

marionberrycore@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

http://www.styluslabs.com/

Maybe try Write?

Atemu@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

This is what I used for math lectures.

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.

Euphoma@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y

If you use org mode, you can use this https://github.com/misohena/el-easydraw. Its a basic drawing tool in emacs.