Cornell Notes Template

Demo

Install

You can obtain all source code from my github repo.

Usage

Put standalone.tex and note.cls in the same folder and complie.

Minimal Example

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% in your .tex file
\documentclass[doctype=s]{note}

\title{Put your note title here.}
\author{Yutong Dai}
\date{Last Update: \today}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[margin=1.5cm, portrait]{geometry}
\begin{document}
% \maketitle
\pre{Questions}
    {
        \begin{enumerate}
            \item{What's the first question this section will answer?}
            \item{What's the second question?}
        \end{enumerate}
    }
\note[key term 1]
    {
        \begin{itemize} 
            \item{A cool thing}
            \item{Another cool thing}
            \item{Not all things are cool}
        \end{itemize}
    }
\note[key term 2]
    {
        \lipsum[4]
    }

\note[Very very very very very very very very long head]
    {
        \lipsum[5]
    }

\summary{Summary}{A fabulous summary}
\end{document}

Key components

\title{}: the title for your document. If you want to leave it blank, please use \title{}; otherwise use \title{your title}.
\author{}: the author for your document. If you want to leave it blank, please use \author{}; otherwise use \author{your name}.
\date{}: the last modified date for your document. If you want to leave it blank, please use \date{}; otherwise use \date{Last Update: \today}.
\pre{}{}: a pre read block. The first argument is the title for this block and the second argument fills in the block.
\note{}{} a note bolck. The first argument records the keyword and the second argument fills the note content.
\summary{}{}: a summary block. see \pre{}{}.

Modes

Two modes are provided for this template,

standalone mode[default]: renders the file as a stand-alone file, the one showed in demo. In this mode, when providing title/author/date, please do not use \maketitle command. These information will be automatically rendered.

collection mode: Use this note as a widget, which can be direcrly incorporated in your article. Since note class directly inherit from the article class. To use collection mode just pass doctype=c to the \documnetclass as the demo code indicates.

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% in your .tex file
  \documentclass[doctype=c]{note}
  \title{Put your note title here.}
  \author{Yutong Dai}
  \date{Last Update: \today}
  \usepackage{lipsum}
  \usepackage[margin=1.5cm, portrait]{geometry}
  \begin{document}
    
  \maketitle
  \tableofcontents
  \newpage
  \section{First section}
  \pre{Questions}
      {
          \begin{enumerate}
              \item{What's the first question this section will answer?}
              \item{What's the second question?}
          \end{enumerate}
      }
  \note[key term 1]
      {
          \begin{itemize} 
              \item{A cool thing}
              \item{Another cool thing}
              \item{Not all things are cool}
          \end{itemize}
      }
  \note[key term 2]
      {
          \lipsum[4]
      }
    
  \note[Very very very very very very very very long head]
      {
          \lipsum[5]
      }
    
  \summary{Summary}{A fabulous summary}

Change the layout

The default layout is portrait, if you would like to switch to landscape, just use \usepackage[landscape]{geometry}.

Last updated on Aug 6, 2020

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