Is writing math/science notes digitally still broken in 2026, or am I missing something?
Hey everyone,
A while ago I posted about building an Obsidian-style math note app with interactive geometry tools. But after talking to more students and researchers, I realized the real problem is much worse: the massive amount of time we waste formatting and re-calculating.
Right now, we are forced to pick an extreme:
1 Speed (Handwriting/iPad): Fast during lectures, but it becomes "dead data"-you can't easily search it, copy code, or use it for a thesis without completely re-typing it.
2 Precision (LaTeX/Mathcad): Looks professional, but it's incredibly slow, hard to learn, and if you change one variable, you have to manually update every equation, table, and chart.
Apparently, STEM students and academics spend up to 40% of their time just fighting layout engines instead of doing actual science.
I want to create a next-gen platform to fix this.
The idea is that in the background it runs typst as the backend, but in practice it won’t require learning a new coding language, because it will be as intuitive as AutoCAD is. And it will have a stable engine to suport visualizatio such as graphs and diagrams and other STEM related stuff.
To help me build this, what is your single biggest bottleneck right now?