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wanderingmarker on July 30, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Notetaking as a way to stay smart

Just make sure you use org-mode to take your notes: it's both more powerful than your current note-taking app, and it stores files as readable plain text. No proprietary lock-in, and no fear of data corruption in case of bugs. :)

nimrody on July 31, 2010 [–]

Except it does not handle graphics well.

While researching a subject, I take notes intertwined with graphs and diagrams. Can emacs handle that type of data?

gwern on Aug 1, 2010 | [–]

Diagrams could be done using artist-mode (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ArtistMode). Images themselves can apparently be embedded/displayed:

- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp/html_node/Images.htm...

- http://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Showing-Im...

- http://obsidianrook.com/codelife/emacs_image_mode.html

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