Good day,
I would like to share a few things that I’ve discovered:
- do maths
- type special characters
- draw stuff like graphs
- Mathtype is really awesome for math notes. As of last week I’ve finally got rid of paper-notes and I’m now doing maths in Scivener + Mathtype. It’s actually pretty cool:
See:
One just needs to invest some time in figuring it out:
shift + command + e to go into text input mode (e.g comments exc)
shift + command + “+” to go into math type.
Ctrl + f for fractions
Ctrl + e for exponent
Ctrl + i for lower script
crtl + p for radical
exc exc. One can make your own characters and equations for easy re-use.
Here are some kewl tutorials:
youtube.com/watch?v=WDImM9s- … plpp_video
Use Mac’s built in keyboard assignments to make Mathtype pop up via a hot key (e.g i made it control option command k)
You’ll have to create an application group for Scrivener. See this screen shot:
Free character replacing app.
In Computation Theory, I need to type symbols like ∀ x,y ∈ ℕ P(x) ∧ ¬R(y)
xtype is great for this purpose. One can find the symbols in apples character pallet. (insert special characters) form the menu (select the option not to use Xtype’s formatting exc… )
Also, one can find special symbols here:
rapidtables.com/
- Skitch:
Ever needed to draw a graph in maths and couldn’t do it on your notebook?
Yah, been there, had that issue. But no more!
This app is really good for scribbling something quickly and then inserting it into scrivener:
skitch.com/
It’s free also.
ALSO.
You know there are dozens of stylus pens for the iPad?
LIke this:
amazon.com/BoxWave-Capacitiv … B000BUI76S
They work just as well with the Mac track-pad. One can pick them up from most apple stores or order them online.
(Mind you the link above is just the first thing I found on goodle, but any ipad- stylus should work with a mac).
I’m using this one:
Now I can draw nice graphs in skitch or use it as a scratch pad for jotting down thoughts.
All of the above makes a cozy set of tools for effective note-taking.
Please feel free to pm me if you have any questions.
Thank you/1
Leo