Should you use LaTeX or images of equations in Anki?

I’ve extensively tried both and here are my findings:

Why should you use LaTeX:

• if you have enough time before your exams to make all the cards
• makes it easy to edit and simplify those difficult cards later
• It’s hard to make photos of equations in uniform font size and fonts when you’re collecting information from different sources
• if fonts or size are not uniform - we’d inadvertently make use of the non-uniformity while reviewing but that doesn’t ensure that we actually learned the card.
• I sometimes color code portions of my equation to make it easy to remember…but that is not directly possible with images.
• if at all you later decide to change the way all your equations look you can just edit the LaTeX options in the manage note type menu.

I find it more difficult to make equations in an ordinary equation editor than type out its equivalent LaTeX.

I made a simple AHK tool to quickly enter LaTeX equations into Anki. Preview :

Link to the post on reddit.

Download this script from here

Why should you use images:

• when you’re running short of time and LaTeX seems to be too difficult
• I use images when I need to annotate my equations or draw arrows to show relations ( I use OneNote for that)
• when you have access to all equations in uniform fonts
• if you don’t mind the repeated process of blurring images/deleting sections when you’re make a lot of cards (Note: Image Occlusion is still in alpha for Anki 2.1 :( but nevertheless it works okay )
• If you are sure you won’t be editing cards later