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It makes me laugh thinking that these notes were probably written in LaTex and then exported.

The formatting for this overview is pretty great though. PDF with a TOC makes a very nice means of navigation.

Is "exported" the correct term to use here? I would say the notes were written in LaTeX, and then compiled (in the software compiler sense) to a PDF.

You are likely correct, exported is the wrong word, and my mind was within my personal org-mode workflow.

I was guessing org-mode -> LaTeX -> PDF. org-mode is much better for taking notes.

It may have been done in org-mode and then exported to LaTeX. That's how I'd do it, anyway.

(David/author here): I haven't actually seen org-mode before. I'll take a look!

I wrote these in sharelatex using a template and commands file I put together that help write notes quickly in latex (they're available here if anyone is interested: https://github.com/david-abel/latex_docs).

Gary Schwartz[0] and Howard Abrams[1][2] both have nice explainers about org-mode which explain the advantages and how to get started.

There's also a nice discussion on the Emacs Reddit page[3] about "Why Org-Mode?"

[0] https://harryrschwartz.com/2016/04/29/getting-started-with-o...

[1] http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/learning-org-mode.h...

[2] http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/journaling-org.html

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3nvmvr/why_orgmode/

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