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For many many year I have been using TexMaker for all my offline LaTeX document creation, compiling and editing needs. A few years back, Overleaf came along with its super ease-of-access approach to online LaTeX document editing and sharing. Overleaf has an edge over other LaTeX software distributions, mainly because of the following reasons: Overleaf is online, so the document can be accessed from anywhere with Internet. Adding collaborators is as easy as adding their email addresses....

Problems I have encountered using Dropbox: Dropbox storage space available for use is really low, and is consumed relatively easily because of the .git folder. Dropbox real time sync has issues with git if multiple computers work on a project simultaneously. Although, it has been rare that I have encountere this. My current solution for this problem is as follows: Move the most space consuming .git folders outside of Dropbox. This way Dropbox won’t be syncing these large folders....

A log of Zotero issues, I have encountered. The the Zotero chrome connector doesn’t always work. This issue arises sporadically every now and then. A workaround I devised for this is to use the webpage version of the zotero library via login to the website. The library is available at: https://www.zotero.org/suyoggarg/mylibrary/ Then any new item can be manually added using the identifier, for example the DOI or the URL of the page....

General guidelines You basically have three entities you want to interlink and provide bidirectional access. Personal computer Remote computer Github or Gitlab a/c server A copy of all my ssh keys is stored in ~/Dropbox/ssh-access-keys/ Generate SSH Key Pair SSH public and private keys can be generated by: ssh-keygen -t ed25519 In the prompt for putting in the password, leave it blank and just press “Enter”, if ya don’t want to have a password-protected file....

To access and open VS Code directly from your terminal, do the following: Open your Bash or zsh profile. open ~/.zshrc Add path to the VS Code application to your PATHS variable. # Add Visual Studio Code (code) export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin" Reload your updated terminal profile. source ~/.zshrc You can now open VS code by running code xxx from anywhere in your computer. References: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/mac