Who else transitioned from Overleaf to VSCode for presentations and papers?
I've found that Overleaf can become excruciatingly slow and even crash when a project grows too large, especially if you have:
- Too much content within a single `.tex` file
- Too many files or figures in the project
While Overleaf is good for collaboration, these performance issues have made it challenging to use for larger projects. I’ve started transitioning to VSCode with the TeX extension, which offers a smoother experience. I also push everything to GitHub.
Unfortunately, though, I’m not aware of an autosave feature in VSCode, so if you forget to push your work to GitHub or your computer crashes, you risk losing a lot of progress.
By the way, I feel a BURNING hatred in my heart for dealing with inserting figures in Beamer presentations and I absolutely hate making Tikz figures, but I have a fondness for the Madrid theme because the first math class I ever took used it.
The feature that VSCode extension lacks is not having a side panel showing the sections when viewing the raw tex.