For note-taking, I have given up on pure LaTeX. I like to think I am reasonably ok with LaTeX, but if I am trying to be quick, it’s too cumbersome for me. Having to remember “ vs backticks and begin and end tags with lists is frustrating when I am trying to quickly do notes.

I feel that Pandoc+Markdown is pretty much what I want. Markdown is quick at taking notes with a syntax far easier to use on the fly, and I have the ability to use LaTeX math and render with LaTeX if I need it.

I know Markdown has a million standards but I just stick with “Pandoc flavored markdown”.