Argdown is a simple syntax for complex argumentation. Writing pro & contra lists in Argdown is as simple as writing a twitter message, but you can also use it to logically reconstruct whole debates and visualize them as argument maps.

To make note tak­ing using LaTeX vi­able, I had four goals in mind:

• Writ­ing text and math­e­mat­i­cal for­mu­las in LaTeX should be as fast as the lec­tur­er writ­ing on a black­board: no delay is ac­cept­able.
• Draw­ing fig­ures should be al­most as fast as the lec­tur­er.
• Man­ag­ing notes, i.e. adding a note, com­pil­ing all my notes, com­pil­ing the last two lec­tures, search­ing in notes, etc. should be easy and quick.
• An­no­tat­ing pdf doc­u­ments using LaTeX should be pos­si­ble for when I want to write notes along­side a pdf doc­u­ment.
  This blog post will focus on the first item: writ­ing LaTeX.

• Live markdown editing: Laverna has a simple and robust markdown editor, which can help you write faster than ever before with our live markdown preview.
• Distraction free mode: The editor can be switched to distraction free mode where you can focus solely on writing notes.
• Available anytime and anywhere: Make your notes available on any device with your Dropbox & RemoteStorage account.
• Keep your notes private: You can make your notes available only to you by enabling encryption.

Official site of MyNotex, free note-taking, document file and activity manager for GNU/Linux.

Notes are gathered under different subjects and are made by a title, a date, a tags (keywords) list and a free-length text. This may be formatted: it is possible to change the font name, size and color of a selected text and of its background, and also to set bold, italic, underline and strike-through; the text may have pictures within it. The software can manage paragraph alignment, bullets, numbered and alphabetic lists with automatic indentation. Each note may have any number of attachments (files of every kind), and has also a spreadsheet-like grid to manage a list of activities which is quite similar to the one used in many software of project management. The various activities of one or all the notes of a file may be shown in a diary view and possibly exported in iCal format. A single file of MyNotex contains various notes filed in different subjects.