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NOTE Introduction

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Taking notes on a computer can be challenging,

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especially if you compare computer notes

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with handwritten notes. When you're handwriting,

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you don't focus as much on taking those notes.

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Well, you don't focus as much on *how* you take the notes,

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you more so focus on what you're taking.

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You don't get that same experience

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if you're writing your notes on a computer.

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When writing notes on a computer,

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you mostly focus on typing or alignment.

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Those are things that are kind of solved already

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by certain software such as Org Mode,

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which is fantastic when it comes to note-taking,

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but I still believe it could be much better.

NOTE Packages: Lectorg, Reorg, HBH

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That's why I've developed the package called Lectorg.

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It's a collection of scripts and snippets which allow you

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to improve your note-taking experience on the computer,

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of course, making you more focused on the subject

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rather than the process of taking notes.

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So why use Emacs? Well, again,

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if compared with other software,

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it has a lot more customizability

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and it can also unify pretty much anything you need

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in student life or work life into one place.

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The problems that Lectorg solves are kind of,

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as I mentioned, already solved partially

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by Org Mode itself.

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What I've done is simply make a bunch of additions

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to Org Mode through an external package,

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but I've also developed other sub-modules,

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one of them being HBH, which allows me

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to easily plan out my days HBH, hour by hour,

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therefore I can plan out my days on an hourly basis

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practically. But I've also built something called Reorg

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which, for those of you that are familiar

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with the Remarkable tablet, allows you

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to integrate notes from your Remarkable into Emacs--

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into your Org Mode notes basically.

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Now I believe there's already another talk on integrating

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handwritten notes into Emacs,

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so I won't get too much into that.

NOTE Org Mode

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So again, at the heart of Lectorg is Org Mode,

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which for those of you that might not be familiar,

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Org Mode is one of the best pieces of software

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when it comes to basically capturing any sort of text,

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managing that text, exporting it

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into various different formats,

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which is perfect for taking notes

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because you can either export them,

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take them on the go if you don't have access

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to your computer all the time,

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or you can share them with friends, which...

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Well, that is somewhat self-explanatory

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in how that can help you or others.

NOTE The ecosystem of Lectorg: Elisp and Python

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Now the ecosystem of Lectorg,

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it's a bit chaotic as of right now. It's a package itself,

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Lectorg.el, which also partially relies on

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a collection of Python scripts

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as I didn't have that much time

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to develop the software strictly in Elisp,

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but it still gets the job done,

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and I believe that there is no speed hindrance.

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Now to further improve Lectorg,

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I'd love to ask for your help

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if you have encountered any sort of issue

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when it comes to note-taking or academics in general,

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I would love to integrate your solution

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(or if you don't have one, we can come up with one)

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into Lectorg. Also, if anyone would be willing

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to transcribe those Python scripts

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into a more Lisp approach, then that'd be fabulous.

NOTE How Lectorg works

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So let's look at how Lectorg works in practice.

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We'll look at two examples,

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one of taking notes for math

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and the other for business, I believe.

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Now I have to mention that all of the things

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that I do in that example

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do not cover all the functions and features of Lectorg.

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There is decent documentation on the Lectorg GitLab page,

NOTE Math

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so do check that out for further reference.

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For our first example, we're going to start off

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with taking notes for statistics. Now what I'm doing here

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is opening Lectorg Hub, which allows me

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to associate certain resources with this particular course.

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Here, I've opened the book which I have associated

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with this course, and I'm going to go ahead

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and start taking some notes

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on the cumulative distribution function here.

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Now what OrgMode allows you to do

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is integrate LaTeX into regular text quite easily,

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preview it, and then later export it.

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Now here we can see the first usage of a snippet !m,

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which inserts a block for entering a LaTeX equation.

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What I'm trying to do here

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is take a screenshot of the figures in the book,

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which is done with org-download (not a part of Lectorg,

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but a very useful tool). Now that is it for math.

NOTE Business

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Let's look at something a bit different.

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We're going to take a look at business,

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more specifically, taking notes on the product lifecycle.

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Here on the left, I have certain notes from class

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which are not complete.

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As you can see at the top, there's a comment

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also done using Lectorg which puts this file into a TODO

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so that I can get back to it whenever I want

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or schedule this TODO.

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Now I'm taking notes on a video lecture,

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which I've opened, again, through Lectorg hub.

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As you can see right now, I'm inserting

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another snippet for Plantuml,

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which immediately exports it to a file,

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and again I'm going to be using org-download here

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to insert another figure at the top.

NOTE Conclusion

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I hope this demonstration was useful.

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Once again, it did not demonstrate everything.

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You can find more on GitLab.

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I hope some of you might consider using Lectorg

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in your academic life or perhaps even

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in some areas of business. I believe that is

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everything I have to demonstrate for today.

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Thank you for listening to this talk,

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have a nice rest of the day.