I&#x27;m a third year law student (well, my last day was this week!), and I&#x27;ve been using Sublime to take notes and outline things for class. I use a custom syntax highlighting (modified version of the markdown syntax) to make it easy to read.<p>It is common for law students to digest course material into a short-ish (20-30 pages, depending on the class) outline of the material, as a way of studying.   With my modified syntax highlighting config, I use different color bars to represent different level headings to make it easy to see how my document or outline is organized.[1]  I then have a latex template for pandoc which lets me convert it to a beautiful document that is useful during open-book exams.<p>Using Sublime as a WYSIWYM editor is much more pleasant, as the editor is far more responsive, than using a WYSIWYG editor (like MS Word).  I actually recently wrote a paper for class entirely in Markdown in Sublime.  Pandoc lets you convert markdown to PDF (it uses latex internally), and when you convert to docx format for Microsoft Word, you can use a reference file to define the style formats.  It&#x27;s really easy to write something like a brief or a memo and convert it with a reference file to a format that others can work with, properly styled.<p>[1]:  Here is a screenshot of what my editor looks like: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;xU9eSwt.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;xU9eSwt.png</a> :)