Blank boards paired with room to write, so a position and the notes about it live on the same page. Use them as page backgrounds in a tablet note app, or print them.
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The Cornell pages follow the Cornell note-taking method — cue column, note-taking area, summary — developed by Walter Pauk at Cornell University in the 1950s, used here on its merits as a note-taking structure. These templates are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Cornell University.
Each template is a single-page PDF, in three board views — white view (a1 bottom-left), black view (h8 bottom-left) and no coordinates — and three page sizes: 3:4 for a tablet note app, A4 and US Letter for paper. Every layout with a side to it also comes as a mirror image.
A single board in a top corner, ruled lines beside it, and the rest of the page ruled edge to edge. The most writing space of the set, for annotating one position in depth: a game you are reviewing, a tactic you missed, an endgame you want to reason through.
Three boards down one side of the page, each with its own block of ruled lines. Suits three related positions: an opening line at three branch points, or three puzzles in a row.
The same three boards, zig-zagging from side to side, so each position stands apart from its neighbours — for separate items you will scan back through later.
The Cornell note-taking layout adapted for chess: a narrow cue column for questions and keywords, the board at the head of the note column, and a summary band at the foot. One grid runs across the whole page and the board's squares are exactly one grid cell, so the grid, the rules and the board all line up.
For recording a game: two columns of numbered move rows and a board at the foot of each, big enough to write a position into. The move numbers print only their last digit, so one sheet serves any stretch of a game.