Note-Taking Templates

Free downloads

Two note-taking systems that hold up outside a lecture hall, laid out as ready-to-use sheets. Print them, duplicate them into Notion, or open them in Google Docs — whatever you already work in.

Nothing to pay.

Free PDF Cornell Notes Template The Cornell layout printed properly — a cue column for questions, a wide column for the notes themselves, and a summary strip along the bottom. The 30/70 split is already measured, so you can stop drawing lines with a ruler. Cue, notes and summary blocks laid out to scale Also available for Notion and Google Docs Print a stack at the start of term Free · PDF Download the free PDF Opens on GumroadThe Cornell Notes printable template with a cue column, main notes area, and summary strip

Other formats and systems

Same templates, different places to use them — plus the reading method that pairs with them.

  • FreeThe Cornell Notes Notion template open in a workspace

    Cornell Notes for Notion

    Notion template · Duplicate to your workspace
    The same three-part layout as a Notion page, so your cues and summaries are searchable instead of sitting in a drawer.
    • One click to duplicate into your own workspace
    • Comes with a filled-in example page
    • Works on mobile, unlike a paper sheet
  • FreeThe SQ3R printable template with survey, question, read, recite, and review sections

    SQ3R Reading Template

    Gumroad · Reading method
    Survey, question, read, recite, review — the five steps of SQ3R as sections you fill in while you read, so a chapter leaves something behind.
    • A section per step, in the order you actually use them
    • Built for textbooks and non-fiction, not lectures
    • Pairs with Cornell Notes for the reading half of a course
More from the workshop

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The note-taking sheets stay free. If you want the printables we spent longer on — reflection worksheets, planners, and the habit organizer — they live in the other two collections.