As many of you know, I have a long standing fascination with taking class notes in LaTeX using Emacs. This despite the fact that my days in the classroom are long over. Just a week ago, I wrote about laas, a package much like CDLaTeX that provides shortcuts for LaTeX commands to make writing LaTeX speedier.
MLStudent Odyssey has a short video that describes his system for writing LaTeX in Emacs. He’s not concerned with taking notes in class but with writing up notes after a class. His strategy consists of some custom LaTeX macros and some Emacs keyboard macros that he’s named and saved.
The macros could, of course, be replaced with a bit of Elisp but MLStudent Odyssey’s method shows that even if you don’t know any Elisp, you can still get Emacs to enter arbitrary text for you on demand.
As I say, the video is short—only 3 minutes, 58 seconds—so don’t expect a complete note taking system. Still, there are a couple of good ideas in the video and it’s well worth watching. It’s so short you should be able to fit it in without trouble.