LaTeX, full of shit but beautiful

While I was drinking some forgotten-till-became-cold tea, I decided to learn and use LaTeX. Why? Read my homepage.

Since I'm still in college, I took it as an opportunity to learn it. I have never taken notes as I am positive they are pathetic as college's professors. However, since some new aspect for the thing has been formed, it is time to take "notes".

Now it's the time to learn. Oh shit, I remembered how fast I get bored off things. That's when I decided to "cheat" a little bit. I did the thing that I have perfected over the years; improvise. I checked #LaTeX on fosstodon to see any nerd who's using it for similar purposes. I haven't looked a lot and then found multiple people use it for the same sole purpose, so voila!

I checked the source code for some notes, figured out the main syntax, swarmed a little for about three hours throughout people's notes. Simultaneously, I played a lot to find out my limits using it.

I guess now I am ready to take this to the next level. Of course I will neither use some "LaTeX IDE" nor sacrifice my time writing this boring long repeatable syntax. Thankfully, I have been using Ultisnips for a while now aside with YouCompleteMe in vim. I wrote multiple snippets, some were inspired by Castel. You can find the snippets here. Using the snippets made everything easy as fuck. I tested it the next day on some Calculus Lecture, and I found myself writing as fast or may be faster than the professor. Also, now I am a fucking nerd who takes notes. But on the other hand, my notes look aesthetically awesome. I may consider writing some textbooks in the future. You can take a look on an example for some calculus notes I wrote for the last two lectures I guess here.

For the live preview, I wrote some oneliners in the .vimrc and some code that uses pdflatex to compile.

Overall, the experience was cool, writing notes in LaTeX can make me want to write notes, just for aesthetic purposes. Now, the notes are done. The question is: Will I ever reopen my notes or were they written for /dev/null ?