Start from a shape, not a blank page
A template is a note skeleton you write once: the headings, labels and checklists you always need. Pick it, and the new note opens with all of it in place.
Free to start · used by 44K+ note-takers
Shapes worth starting from
A few of the LunaNotes templates, shelved by what the note is for. In the app, your workspace's own templates are listed above them.
For class
Lectures and papers, with a place for what you didn't get yet.
Lecture Notes
Structured note-taking template for classes and lectures
Course information
Key objectives
Main content
Key concepts
Questions & discussion
Action items
Research Summary
Academic research and paper summary template
Paper information
Research question
Methodology
Key findings
Analysis & interpretation
Connections & applications
References
For work
Meetings and projects, where a missing section costs something.
Meeting Minutes
Professional meeting documentation template
Meeting details
Agenda
Discussion points
Decisions made
Action items
Next steps
Project Planning
Project planning and task tracking template
Project overview
Goals & objectives
Tasks & milestones
Team & resources
Risks & challenges
Success criteria
For yourself
A daily page that asks the same good questions.
Daily Journal
Personal reflection and journaling template
Date
Morning intentions
Today's events
Reflections
Gratitude
Tomorrow's plan
Yours
The note you write every week that none of these fit: a lab report, a book club page, a weekly review.
Write your own template
Your own template is two fields and a Save
In workspace settings, open Templates and click Add template. There is no template language to learn: you write it the way you write a note.
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A name people will recognise
Between 3 and 50 characters. It is what the picker lists, so “Lab report” beats “Template 2”.
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The editor you already write in
Headings, lists, checklists, quotes, tables, code and math: anything a note can hold, a template can hold.
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Labels and empty lines
Bold labels like Date and Partner, and headings with nothing under them yet. That is the part you fill in each time.
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Save, and it is in everyone's picker
It belongs to the workspace from that moment. Edit it later and notes already made from it stay as they are.
- Owners, Admins and Editors add, change and delete templates. Viewers see the list and change nothing.
- Deleting a template removes it for everyone. Notes already made from it stay exactly as they are.
- In a personal workspace, the list is yours alone.
Three clicks from the Notes page
The result is an ordinary note: write in it, tag it, link it to other notes. Nothing ties it back to the template.
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Open the menu next to Blank note
On the Notes page, the arrow beside Blank note holds the other ways to start.
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Choose Create from template
Your workspace's templates come first, then the LunaNotes ones by category. Type to filter.
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Pick one, or preview it first
The eye opens a preview. Picking a template creates the note with its structure and opens it.
Questions about Templates
What people ask before they try it.
Yes. Creating, editing and using templates costs no credits on any plan, and that includes the LunaNotes templates.
Yes. Open Templates in your workspace settings and click Add template. Give it a title and write it in the same editor you use for notes, then click Save.
Yes. Open it from the Templates list, make your changes and click Save. Notes you already created from it do not change, because each note gets its own copy of the structure.
Yes, from templates you wrote. Ask for a note from one by name, with a title and tags, and it creates it in one step.
Yes. In the extension's sidebar on YouTube, Create lets you choose one of your workspace's templates, and the note is linked to the video you are watching.
The public template gallery on this site lists LunaNotes templates by category. You can download any of them as Markdown or Word, or start a free account with one already in your notes.
No. You can create as many templates as you need, on every plan.
Works even better with
Templates is one part of LunaNotes. These pick up where it leaves off.
Explore what else LunaNotes does
Each one works on the same notes, so what you make in one feeds the rest.
Make it studyable
Bring it in
- Video workspace Your video library, with notes attached
- Timestamped notes Notes that jump back to the moment
- YouTube extension Notes and transcripts inside YouTube
- YouTube courses Work through a playlist in order
- Bookmarks Save any page, find it again
- Meeting notes An AI notetaker for Google Meet
- Podcasts Subscribe, listen, keep the notes
- Files PDFs, documents and images you upload