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• Creating Newsletter Templates in Canva Using Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra Instead of a Computer
• Creating the Accompanying Video Using Canva and the S23 Ultra
• Writing the Accompanying Blog Post Using the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
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• Math: Multiplication table, a ruler for centimeters in inches, mathematical equations and references
• Science: The periodic table of elements and skeletal anatomy
• Social Studies: A list of presidents of the United States of America and their terms served up to the current president, the preamble to the constitution, the United States Government Branches
• Language Arts: References for punctuation, the parts of speech, homophones, letter and essay writing

Printable University Note Pages Gray

The Principal University Note Pages in Gray are a wonderful option for those looking for a neutral set of printable note pages for use in an 8.5 by 11 binder. This allows you to create your own planner for school, and they work great for middle school through to university.

Printable University Note Pages Colors

The Printable University Note Pages in Colors is an alternative to the neutral gray printable university note pages, and they offer more customizable planner options. This pack includes all six note-taking sheets from the gray pack in six different colors, so a total of 42 different sheets. 

Printable Cornell Note Sheets

These printable note pages feature Cornell note sheets, which is the preferred note-taking system by universities and colleges for compartmentalized note-taking. Write out the course, topic, details, key points, and questions on these sheets for anything you're taking notes on.

Printable Study Note Sheets

The printable study note pages allow you to compartmentalize what you've read, with space available to jot down the chapters and pages where you read it, the topic, and its relevance to your work, essay, or report. As with all the pages, there is space to include which class it's for, the instructor, and additional notes.

Printable Course Note Sheets

Course note sheets are designed to offer you a neat space to write down important information about your courses, including your instructor's name, contact information, syllabi information, materials needed, required readings, and more. I found this information especially helpful for homeschooling parents and students as well as university students.

Printable Citation Planner

Creating citations can be difficult, and you don't always have a citation tool on hand or a reference book. The source citation note sheet is designed to allow you to jot down all the important information for sources you've used in essays or reports in an at-a-glance manner. This is useful for taking with you to a library or jotting down source information as you gather it online. Later, when you have more time, you can reference your citation manual style book or tool and input the information you wrote down for each label. By far, this is one of the most useful printables I have ever created.

The citation note sheets allow you to jot down the course, instructor, and project for which you are taking citation notes. Furthermore, there is space to write down the name of the website, publisher, article title, and author. You can also write out the date it was published and the date you retrieved it, the URL, and your selected notes and quotes. 

At the bottom, you can write out the relevance to your report to ensure you're only gathering information that is pertinent to your project and plan out the points you would like to make in your report or essay. I've also included checkboxes to mark them off as you make those points, so you don't forget anything in your final report. 

Printable Lecture Notes

Also included are two different versions of lecture notes. The block version utilizes an unlined format for free writing your notes within each section. The lined version keeps notes organized and neat. There is space for jotting down the topics of lectures and important details for each topic covered. 

Best Gel Pens for School

Pilot Frixion Gel Pens (The Official S.T.E.M. Pen)

Another product from Pilot that I would absolutely recommend to anyone needing to take notes with accuracy is the Pilot Frixion gel pens. These gel pens are touted as the official S.T.E.M pens because they feature thermo erasable ink. These pens come in a variety of colors, similar to the Pilot G2 collections. They write smoothly, and I would even say they glide across paper.

The thermal erasable ink is 100% heat-based, so ink erases cleanly without destroying the paper. Each pen comes with a rubber-like eraser either on the cap, or if it's a clicker pen, on the back. Applying friction to the paper heats up the area where the ink has been applied, causing it to erase invisibly.

I found that the Pilot Frixion Color Sticks are best for younger children, including elementary and middle school students because they come in fun colors and feature thinner, simple barrels comparable to a pencil’s width. These also fit nicely in pouches. 

For all other uses, I find that the Pilot Frixion Synergy and the Pilot Friction Clicker Erasable Gel Pens pens offer a more professional writing instrument with precision tips and the ability to erase mistakes. 

 

This makes using a pen for taking notes in applications like science and math more accessible and efficient, as they offer the ability to color code notes and erase mistakes cleanly. 

Pilot G2 Gel Pens

Pilot G2 pens are my go-to gel pens for everyday writing. The array of colors makes categorizing and organizing notes and planners effortless. The wider barrel makes taking notes for a long period of time comfortable, and these pens wright smoothly on almost any paper surface. 

I recently tested and reviewed the Pilot G2 Limited Edition Harmony Collection pens, and found that they performed wonderfully for all of my printables on 24 lb and 28 lb Astrobrights paper. I also own Pilot G2 pens in the Neon and Brights collection, and my most-used G2 is the Flagship Pilot G2 Black pen. 

I consider these pens must-have writing instruments for school, because they make keeping track of individual notes easier, and categorizing notes by class, subject, and type makes planning out your day in a planner much more efficient. 

I've tested these pens out on both higher-end planners, inexpensive school planners with thinner paper, and my go-to 24-lb and 28-lb Astrobrights paper. In every test, Pilot G2 gel pens prove that they do not bleed through planner pages, notebook paper, general 20-lb copy paper, 24-lb or 28-lb paper.

If you haven't noticed yet, I am a huge Pilot user. 

Best Highlighters for School (Sharpie, BIC, and Zebra)

While I find that you can't go wrong with a BIC fluorescent Brite Liner highlighter, because of its superior no-bleed formula and lighter pigment. But I find that Sharpie highlighter color options are more widely available than BIC's color lineup.  

Sharpie highlighters come in a variety of collections. The fluorescent Sharpie highlighter colors include yellow, blue, orange, pink, and sometimes purple. But Sharpie also has a 12-pk pastel highlighter collection that includes 6 fluorescent colors and 6 pastel colors in the same hues, which are pink, purple, orange, yellow, green, and blue. 

BIC also has a competing Marking Grip highlighter collection in the same hues. But I've only ever come across them online. So they aren't as reliable to find. 

I found that using Sharpie highlighters to color-code notes and planner pages is more efficient than using BIC highlighters, which are usually only found in 5 fluorescent colors (blue, yellow, orange, pink, and green).

Sharpie S Note Markers vs. Zebra Midliners

Now, Sharpie does have their new midliner collection called the Sharpie S Note markers. These are a cross between a highlighter and a marker and come in a complete total of 36 pastel colors. Their biggest competitor at the moment is the Zebra midliner, which comes in 30 pastel colors. Both of these take highlighters for note-taking to outer space, with the amount of categorizing you can do. 

However, I have found that the Sharpie S Note highlighters are highly pigmented, which makes reading through them a bit difficult when using darker colors. This deep pigmentation also means that they will bleed through most paper, even though their package says they are no-bleed highlighters.

So, if you're using highlighters for general note-taking purposes, and you're going to be using general notebook paper, or your average 20-lb copy paper, I would say go with the Sharpie pastel collection for in-depth organization or the BIC fluorescent collection for general highlighting. 

If you plan on using highlighters as an art medium, then I would go with the Sharpie S Note highlighters, or the tried and true Zebra midliners. 

Winner: Sharpie Highlighters (12 pk Pastel Collection)

Fineliners That Won't Bleed Through Paper

For bullet journaling and planners, most people fall back on a no-bleed fineliner, which is a felt tip marker designed to offer the color options and pigmentation of markers but in a very fine tip and a no-bleed formula. 

There are a lot of fineliners out there, but I have found that there are three specific brands that offer fineliners that genuinely do not bleed through paper, and I have tried them all.

One of the most prevalent problems I have seen are shoppers trying to find an alternative to more expensive fineliners and finding companies that promise no-bleed fineliners. These usually turn out to be just thin versions of regular markers, or inferior quality fineliners that just bleed straight through any paper you use it on, or at least the general 20-lb paper or notebook paper that most people use. 

I've even tried most fineliners on thinner and thicker paper, including 24 lb, 28 lb, and cardstock. In every single test, I came back to the same three brands.

Sharpie Felt Tip Pens

Sharpie Felt Tip Pens began years ago and were first advertised as fine tip felt pens instead of fineliners. And years ago they did act more like pens than they did fineliners, which is why I loved them so much. But nowadays the Sharpie Felt Tip Pens you find on the market behave more like fineliners in that their ink is way more pigmented, and the felt tip is rougher on the paper.

I'm not necessarily in love with the way these pens are currently manufactured, but I can say that they are still 100% no-bleed pens, which makes using them for planners and taking color-coded notes awesome. They feature a thinner barrel than most fineliners because they have a pen-like structure. I would recommend these pens to anyone who needs a fineliner that functions more like a pen.

I have noticed that Sharpie tends market these as art pens now, so I don't believe they'll ever go back to the way they used to be. The older Sharpie Felt Tip Pens glided over the page like butter, and they had a bright, yet light, pigmentation. Now they are rougher on the page, as I mentioned, and feature darker pigmentation. Still, I have all 24 colors in my collection. 

Papermate Flair Felt Tip Pens

Papermate Flair felt tip pens were my introduction to fineliners years ago. They are the go-to fineliner for most individuals who use fineliners. I have never found a problem with them bleeding through any of the paper that I use. 

I have found a few have dried up on me faster than they should have, but that comes down to how you store your pens. Fineliners are felt tip pens, which means they need to be stored upside down. I have a tendency to store my pens upright.

All-in-all Papermate Flair felt tip pens are writing instruments that I would recommend to anyone bullet journaling or individuals who color-code planners such as teachers, professors, administrators, and just anyone in general who needs to color-code their planner.

Pilot Frixion Fineliner Erasable Marker Pens

Going back to Pilot collections, the Pilot Frixion Fineliner Erasable Marker is a Pilot's S.T.E.M.-friendly alternative to a fineliner. Almost all fine liners on the market are not erasable, and this means that most people in S.T.E.M. professions have had to settle for using pens, even for applications where a fineliner would be more efficient because they draw broader lines and have a completely different makeup.

Pilot's Frixion Fineliners are erasable just like their color sticks and clicker pens. The ink is also thermal reactive, so it becomes invisible with the application of heat through friction rather than relying on traditional rubber-based erasers that eat through the paper.

I would recommend Pilot Frixion Fineliner Erasable Markers for individuals who would like the concept of bullet journaling, which features customizing notes and planner pages, for applications in high-accuracy careers and activities centered around niches like engineering, the sciences, and math.

When it comes to fineliner markers you can't go wrong with Sharpie Felt Tip Pens, Paper Mate Flair felt tip markers, and Frixion Fineliner Erasable Markers. 

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