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Technical Notetaking – Easily Add & Use Equations in your Notes

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Protolyst supports LaTeX so you can take digital notes for Math based courses and add in your equations and notations. You can save your equations as Atoms, to easily re-use them in other notes too!

Technical Notetaking with LaTeX #

LaTeX is a document preparation system designed specifically for technical or scientific writing. On Protolyst you can type your text just like in any other text editor and then make use of LaTeX to add equations into your notes.

To add equations and other maths variables into your notes, follow the LaTeX notation to make use of functions, symbols, letters, calculus, algebra and many more. A full list of all these are available in LaTeX Cheat Sheets.

Using LaTeX on Protolyst #

Create a Text Editor Page for your notes on Protolyst. You can then add your equations in 2 ways; as inline expressions or as blocks where your equation is given it’s own line and centred on the page. Once written you can Capture your Equations as an Atom – Atoms lift information out of the page so that you can access and use it elsewhere within your workspace.

For inline, you place the math expression between single dollar signs $…$

A Notes page with a sentence about the Trapezium rule and inline notation using LaTeX to add an equation into the Notes.
Notes page on Protolyst with LaTeX equation added inline ($…$) so that it is part of a sentence

As you continue with your sentence the equation renders:

A Notes page with a sentence about the Trapezium rule and inline notation using LaTeX rendered as an equation into the Notes.
Inline Equation rendered in a Notes Page

For block, you use double dollar signs $$…$$:

Technical Notetaking on Protolyst makes use of LaTeX notation to add equations into your notes.  A Notes page with a sentence about the Trapezium rule and block notation using LaTeX to add an equation on it's own line into the Notes.
Notes page on Protolyst with LaTeX equation added in block ($$…$$) so that it is centred on it’s own line in the Page

This notation will render centred and on it’s own line, like this:

Technical Notetaking on Protolyst makes use of LaTeX notation to add equations into your notes.  A Notes page with a sentence about the Trapezium rule and block notation using LaTeX to add an equation on it's own line into the Notes.
Block Equation rendered in the Page.
Start Writing Equations in your Digital Notes

Saving Equations as Atoms #

To speed up your technical notetaking you can then highlight and capture text and equations as an Atom. Once saved as an Atom, you can add your equation into other pages.

A highlighted sentence including an equation
Highlight text to Capture it as an Atom
Protolyst Atoms save highlighted information as Atoms - objects that allow you to use and view your information outside of the source page.
The Atom Box displays the Atom text, which includes the equation.

The Atom text contains the LaTeX notation,

Atoms retain the LaTeX notation for any equations they contain
The Atom Text captured and displayed in the Atom Box can be editted. As you click to type in the Box the equation reverts to LaTeX notation

Atoms are accessible and usable elsewhere in your workspace. Drag and drop your Atoms into other Notes pages, and when you do so the equation can be edited and will render in that page too.

You can use this to create Equation Lists with each of your Equations saved as Atoms. Then you can drag and drop equations into your Notes as you want to use them. In the Table below, the Atoms contain only the LaTeX notation with no other text.

Table of Equations with each Equation saved as an Atom
A Table used to create an Equations List with Key Equations saved as Atoms. These can be Drag and Dropped into other Notes Pages to quickly add equations into your Notes.

In contrast to other LaTeX editors, on Protolyst you do not need to add or make use of text formatting commands for your entire notes page. Just use the dollar signs to add your equations and mathematical variables and then continue writing.

Start Using Equations in your Notes!
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Updated on February 9, 2024

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