Neovim for Beginners— Note Taking, Writing, Diagramming, and Presentation
Explore plugins for note-taking, writing, diagramming, and presentation.
Vim/Neovim is a great tool for note-taking and writing. In this article, we will recap the relevant plugins mentioned in the previous articles, and go through new plugins, tools, and tricks for note-taking, writing, diagramming, and presentation.
This article is part of the Neovim for Beginners series.
The Neovim configuration files can be found in this repository.
Getting Started
Besides coding, Neovim is a great tool for note-taking and writing. In several past articles, we walked through the plugins that could help us. Let’s recap before we explore other useful plugins and tools.
Note Taking
In the Vim/Neovim — Managing Notes and Todo List article, we talked about the following plugins.
- For note-taking, we can use
VimWiki,vim-bujo,todo.txt-vim,neuron.nvim,vim-dotoo,Taskwarrior + VimWiki + TaskWiki,Neorg,nvim-orgmode,telekasten.nvim,mind.nvim,Obsidian.nvim. - For Markdown preview, we can use
markdown-preview.nvim,glow.nvim,vim-instant-markdown,peek.nvim.
Scientific Note Taking
For scientific note-taking, we can use nabla.nvim.
Writing
In the Vim/Neovim Plugins for Writing article, we talked about the following plugins.
- For focused writing, we can use
goyo.vim,TrueZen.nvim,zen-mode.nvim. - For writing in Markdown and previewing, we can use
vim-markdown,vim-markdown-toc,glow.nvim,markdown-preview.nvim,vim-livedown,peek.nvim. - For writing in Latex we can use
vim-tex,vim-latex-live-preview. - For grammar checking, we can use
vim-grammarous,vim-LanguageTool,LanguageTool.nvim,ALE. - Other useful plugins for writing like
vim-table-mode,vim-pandoc,vim-pencil,vim-abolish,HighStr.nvim.
