kite - Revolutionized note taking

A LaTeX package to optimize note taking, to transform information into knowledge. Ever being annoyed that the content of a sentenced can be accessed from different perspectives? Use this package to automatically distribute and connect it.

Features

• Create kite environment and pass an arbitrary number of topics as arguments
• Each topic is compiled as a section, subsection down to subparagraph – to be specified in the main.tex
• The statement within the environment is assigned to to all of the given topics/keys
• Additionally a python script creates a list of hyperlinks below each statement according to the topics, so that you can easily access the affiliated topics and expand the net of your information
• automatically generated index with keywords in the beginning of the document

How to use

1. write your stuff into ./sections/sectionX.tex
2. include section.tex files into main.texusing the command \processfile{./sections/sectionXPY.tex}
3. order the keys in main.tex as \kitesections{} etc
4. compile using python2 cmpl.py
   • generates
     • .keylist.sty
     • .keylist.tex
     • .sectionXPY.tex (preprocessed tex file containg \kiteKey{})

Project structure

.
| cmpl.py
| main.tex
| (library.bib)
| .keylist.sty (generated by cmpl.py)
| .keylist.tex (generated by cmpl.py)
|
|─── /sections/
	| section1.tex
	|		...

• cmpl.py
  • requires python2
  • compiles the document into a pdf file: python2 cmpl.py
  • here the document name (main.tex or whatever you want) and the section names need to be specified
  • accepts argument python2 cmpl.py library to process the library.bib file
  • generates three files
    • .keylist.sty
    • .keylist.tex
    • .sectionXPY.tex (the preprocessed tex file containing the keys as links below each statement \kiteKey{[key1, key2, ...]})
• main.tex
  • \processfile{./sections/SECTION} to include the section.tex files containing the kite-formatted content
  • determines the structure of the Topics by providing the commands \kitesection{KEY} ... \kitesubparagraph{KEY}
    MIND: Keys/Topics specified here must exisit in one of the sections! No empty topics are allowed yet (can be included by normal \section{} etc., though).
• ./sections/SECTION.TEX
  • section.tex contain

\begin{kite}{key1, key2, ...}
	A STATEMENT
\end{kite}

formatted content

• .keylist.sty list of all existing keys without duplicates. Is generated by cmpl.py and is used by the kite.sty
  • each key in keylist.sty is used as a heading and all statements that contain that key are assigned
• .keylist.tex tex-formatted list of all existing keys without duplicates to include an index

Available commands

• Key formatting
  • \kitesection{} to \kitesubparagraph{}
• Text formatting
  • kiteit{}
  • kitebf{}
  • \red{}