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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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A guide to taking notes in Vim using tools like Pandoc, Zathura, and custom templates.

This video is a follow-up from my previous video (link below) regarding notetaking in vim. I talk about some things I've learned from taking notes in vim for a couple years and tools I've created along the way. Old video: youtube.com/watch?v=HJ93UYeaoww My Github page: github.com/connermcd Other posts regarding notes in vim: connermcd.com/blog/2014/01/28/getting-things-done.html connermcd.com/blog/2013/02/06/a-color-suscheme.html connermcd.com/blog/2012/05/20/pandoc-table-editing-in-vim.ht… connermcd.com/blog/2011/10/21/notetaking-with-vim.html connermcd.com/blog/2011/10/12/using-vim-in-place-of-writeroo… connermcd.com/blog/2011/09/18/notetaking-with-notational-vel…

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u/anyfactorin r/vim • Recommends

Vim note taking tips from a doctor

u/MrJiksin r/vim • Mentions

…han buffering it in browser. And at times I save the video urls for later download with some info about their names (mostly). Following is a sample file with what I have to download: * http://ruby-kickstart.com * http://lang.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/100310/100310-ee380-500.wmv | small is beautiful, on design of lua * http://vimeo.com/36579366 * link to this video | Haskel development workflow * link to this video * link to this video * link to this video * link to this video * link to this video * http://vimeo.com/73866851 * link to this video | FB reimagines web dev * link to this video | WHat it means to be reactive I created a macro to convert lines with the link to the format that can be used in my terminal to download the video. let @d="0idv '\<ESC>f i'\<ESC>f|xxi…

u/tnsh94in r/vim • Mentions

Hey guys new Vim initiate here, is it possible for us to compile all notes with a specific tag like #science? What I'm looking for is a way for me to pull out all the files in a folder with a specific tag like #science \*\*using Vim scripts\*\* and compile them all into a pdf using pandoc or latex. Is this possible and if so, how? If any of you already have created something like this, mind sharing your codes/scripts and tips? Thank you very much <3 Since I'm already committing myself to taking notes with Vim from here on out, I'm looking for some scripts to help me automate the tasks of compiling and creating pdf so I can focus on actually making notes and reading them on the go. I got…
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