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After I noticed that their forum thread [1] about requesting LaTeX-style math notes was almost as old as my Evernote Premium subscription, I came to the conclusion that this is just a ripoff. I paid all these years only to keep my access and for the occasional design update but the core experience stagnated.

Dropbox Paper already provided a better note-taking experience and with Notion.so I finally found a full replacement. The product is in active development [2] and I don't feel like I am just paying to keep the servers running.

[1] https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/16445-request-support-...

[2] https://www.notion.so/notion/What-s-New-157765353f2c4705bd45...

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I think I post this every time I read something about Dropbox Paper but I think it's important: Every note is shared by default when you know the URL, nothing is private by default. You explicitly need to make every single note private so no one can access it. I really want to use paper but I think this really sucks IMHO.

I really like the UX of paper, but I feel like it stopped moving forward, and unfortunately it seems to be moving further away from straight markdown little by little. That said, it's still my go-to for writing anything that requires quick and easy inline styling and formatting.

Notion looks great, but I'm still on the fence about it. I tried it a couple months ago and can't say I loved the mobile experience on Android. I should probably give it another shot.

Notion looks great... but I just can't seem to keep using it consitently (maybe too many features?) Now I am back to markdown files strucuted in folders

I think I may have the same issue. There's a bit too much going on for me.

Markdown has definitely become my format of choice. It's like the JSON of plain-text files: Imperfect, but simple and everywhere.

I'd like to simplify down to markdown files in folders as you have, but I can't seem to find a native editor that I actually like on Ubuntu. They all feel incomplete, or they insist upon "preview" mode, which I can't stand.

Paper has the best editor UX for me, where the formatting happens inline, immediately, as I type. The automated TOC driven by headers is pretty great as well. I do wish I could "view source" once in a while, but for the most part I never actually have to.

I use typora. Im not exactly sure whether it works on linux. also you could use a vscode extension for live previewing (vscode works on linux right?)

I'm pretty late on this response, so I'm not sure you'll ever see it, but after your recommendation I downloaded Typora. It's excellent. I'd tried it a couple times in the past and was not impressed, but I am now. It's fast, it works predictably well, and the documentation is really good.

I wish they had a means of adding plug-ins (or if it were open-source, so I could figure out how to add my own).

Thanks for the recommendation!

As for vscode, I may try it at some point as vscode is pretty impressive, although I tend to live in the Jetbrains world, and happily so. That said, I haven't really been a fan of any Markdown plugin on Jetbrains apps.

Notion looks great. I was hoping your comment implied it support latex math but unfortunately not.

Paper does this right with single `$` for inline math and double `$$` for math blocks. Currently, Notions supports only math blocks and you can invoke those with `/math`.

Oh that's great, thanks. I looked at the docs but didn't find anything.

Does Overleaf support what you're looking for?[1]

[1] https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Mathematical_expression...

Thanks! Funnily enough I found it just hours before I saw this article posted on HN

Notion does have Latex math (called "math equation") blocks

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