I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape

For ex­am­ple, sup­pose you’re work­ing on the fol­low­ing fig­ure in Inkscape:

To in­clude this fig­ure in a LaTeX doc­u­ment, you’d go to File › Save As, se­lect ‘pdf’ as the ex­ten­sion and then press Save which makes the fol­low­ing di­a­log pop up:

Choos­ing ‘Omit text in pdf and cre­ate LaTeX file’, will save the fig­ure as pdf+LaTeX. When I’m tak­ing notes dur­ing a lec­ture, I need to be able to add a fig­ure with­out dis­rupt­ing my flow, and not spend time open­ing Inkscape, search­ing for the cor­rect di­rec­to­ry, typ­ing the LaTeX code for in­clud­ing the fig­ure man­u­al­ly and so on. The styles I use for draw­ing fig­ures are quite sim­ple:

These op­tions com­bined give the fol­low­ing table of com­mon­ly used styles:

As ap­ply­ing these styles is some­thing I do very fre­quent­ly, I want it to be fast, but using the de­fault short­cuts in Inkscape takes too long.

Source: castel.dev