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University Tools

Strategy

Class with Useful Lectures

i.e. classes where lectures cover material

  1. Take notes during lectures
  2. Outside of class, transfer notes to interconnection
    • Helps memory by requring brain to restructure notes into a graph layout

Class with Flipped Lectures

i.e. watch lectures or read textbook beforehand

  1. Read textbook / watch lecture
  2. Use summary and/or exercises to figure out what's important and tranfer to interconnection

Tools

Obsidian

The best note taking app. Allows you to use extended markdown syntax. Therefore files viewed on Github can be in rendered form Portable to other applications if Obsidian dies as an application Obsidian Git exists to sync to a Github repo, allowing for seemingly infinite storage. Support for code blocks Mermaid allows for basic diagrams and drawings. Allows pasting of images.

Languages / Syntax

Markdown

Ubiquitous markup language. Extended syntax support is sometimes a bit wonky and varies from application to application.

Mermaid

Very well-supported syntax for diagrams and drawings. Github supports rendering in their web view.

Latex

Great language for creating resumes based on Jake's resume.