Cornell Notes Template

The template follows a classic Cornell format, with sections for notes, questions, a summary, and a heading. Use the powerful tool most university students are unaware of. Evernote’s Cornell note-taking method template helps you divide and conquer your notes, creating a system that gets the most out of the information you have.

Add blank space between key concepts, and use abbreviations to keep things concise. Quickly create additional pages by simply applying the template to a new note.

Let’s say you’re taking an English course and one of your notes reads, “An essay outline should include all main points.” A question you could write beside this note would be, “What should an outline do?” Or an appropriate cue might be, “outline requirement.”

Using your own words in your responses will help you grasp the material better than reciting the notes verbatim. When you’re done, summarize your notes in the space provided.

Since you’re doing this in Evernote, you can use search to quickly find any note, which helps you spend less time hunting things down and more time learning what you need to know.