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Note-taking software has continued to fail me by not including LaTeX support. I will not be taking notes without being able to format math. This affects Evernote and OneNote equally.

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actually, onenote 2010 support formulas. And the support is quite good, on par with word.

It makes me sad, because I live on linux and notetaking apps there are mediocre. The best I could find is keepnote.

Onenote is years ahead of everything else, but I don't want the vendor lock-in and the binary files that it produces.

Evernote moved to .NET 3.5 so no wine support. Bah!

Yes, but the problem with this is that you can't just enter a stream of text. If I'm in a math class, attempting to take notes, I have to point and click on those apps.

With apps that support LaTeX, I can just type $, start typing math, and type another $ to go back to regular text. Sure, I'll have to type things like \int, but that's still faster than trying to find the integral button in OneNote.

Edit: fix typo.

I recently moved away from Evernote for this reason and the slow client. The one thing Evernote has is the websync and webclient but between Dropbox (latex in text files), Gmail and Google Docs I get pretty much the same functionality.

Look into Emacs / org-mode. It supports literal LaTeX, and exporting full documents to LaTeX, HTML, and probably a few others.

If you don't like Emacs, you probably won't like Org, though.

If OneNote is anything like Word you can use LaTeX notation once you are inside an equation environment (Alt + =).

For example in Word typing Alt + = \int^1_2 \sum^x_(x+1) \ge \sqrt(25)

Would produce exactly what you would get in LaTeX.

You can even copy/paste between applications that support MathML.

Sweet; I haven't yet had an opportunity to use the new equation editor. That's exactly what I want; though.

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