I learned about the PDF possibility of taking notes which are then stored with the document, usefull when reading ebooks. If the note taker also supports some math notation, that would be wonderful! Which free PDF reader can do this? (I am using Lubuntu 12.10)
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Evince Document Viewer (Installed by Default)
Here is a screenshot of an editable PDF file being filled in my desktop for you to see Evince Document Viewer in action.
Like this, there should be some other good PDF readers that will allow you to perform this task, but this is working for me and it is really lightweight.
Good luck!
Give Zim a try, it has a fairly good equation insertion plugin, you enter latex code and the corresponding equation is rendered in the document, you can right click the equation and edit the underlying Latex code as well. Zim has an export to latex feature that will create a latex file that you can run to create nice pdfs of your notes.
Read about it here
A screenshots:
latest deb to install available here:
http://zim-wiki.org/downloads/
Another tool for this kind of work is Emacs Org Mode, it is very strong on tables and will allow you to use latex equations in the text, though not rendered. all notes can be exported to latex which can then be compiled to pdf, good looking equations and tables will be in your pdfs.
Links about Emacs Org Mode:
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Best Answer
Evince 3.6.1 (the default PDF viewer) now supports adding annotations and bookmarks (proper PDF bookmarks), that are saved with the document.
Since Evince 3.14 you can add and delete annotations.
UPDATE Evince 3.14: Annotations can be added and deleted.
UPDATE 2020: Key
Sadds a text note andCtrl + Hhighlights selected text. (both still require a mouse click to start writing on the annotation). Thanks @Gogowitsch