Note Taking Courses and Certifications

Effective use of OneNote 2013 in real life

1621 ratings at Udemy

Improve your note-taking skills and learn how to effectively use Microsoft OneNote 2013 to organize and share your notes

• Udemy
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Coursera

Getting Started with Microsoft OneNote

41 ratings at Coursera

Set up a free Microsoft 365 account and build a OneNote notebook with sections and pages, adding text, pictures, videos, links, add-ins, and translation tools.

• Coursera
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Coursera

A Second Brain with Obsidian

29 ratings at Coursera

Build a second brain in Obsidian: structure notes for journaling, study or work, link notes together, and visualize the connections through Graph View.

• Coursera
• 2 hours 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Microsoft Office OneNote (Live Online)

8 ratings at CourseHorse

Get fluent in digital note-taking and collaboration with Microsoft OneNote, a flexible tool for capturing and organizing ideas, meeting notes, project plans, and more.

• CourseHorse
• 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• $295.00

Eindhoven University of Technology

Co-design for All: doing co-design in practice

Build a case study proposal with co-design methods: set targets, map decision landscapes, develop change propositions as a group, and communicate through visual note taking.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Coursera

Obsidian for Beginners: Journal and Track Tasks

Build a daily journaling and task-tracking system in Obsidian using Daily Notes, links and backlinks, tags, search queries, and graph view.

• Coursera
• 1 hour 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Turn Ideas Into Unique Content: Tools For Creative Writing

Build a personal idea system: capture scattered thoughts with a three-step process, keep a commonplace book, and use mind-wandering to turn observations into content.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Microsoft OneNote (Desktop App)

Store, organize, and share notes in OneNote: format text and drawings, embed Excel files and media, tag and search content, password-protect notebooks, and collaborate via OneDrive.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Digital Note-Making for Creative Thinking with Obsidian

Notes are tools for thinking: build a digital knowledge garden with atomic notes, wikilinks, graph views, PARA and LATCH frameworks, and human-AI capture workflows.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Coursera

Enhancing Obsidian: Project Management with plugins

Set up Obsidian for collaborative project management: sync shared vaults, design visuals with Excalidraw, and track tasks using Daily Note, Tasks, Kanban, and Dataview plugins.

• Coursera
• 1 hour 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Coursera

Document Meetings Fast

Build a fast, repeatable meeting documentation workflow: capture decisions with a structured Meeting Notes template, assign action items with named owners, and publish notes using AI note-taking tools.

• Coursera
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Coursera

Negotiation: Remember Levers and Record Notes

Negotiate beyond price: prepare the levers of price, payment terms and lead-time, then capture offers and concessions with a structured note-taking template in a simulated negotiation.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

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Your Thoughts in a Graph: Structured Notetaking with Obsidian

Discover how Obsidian transforms note-taking into a powerful knowledge graph, helping you find and connect ideas beyond traditional file systems—all using simple Markdown on your local drive.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Web Dev Simplified

The Perfect Advanced React-TypeScript Project - Markdown Supported Note Taking With Categories

Build a React and TypeScript note-taking app with categories, Markdown support, filtering, routing, and full note/tag CRUD.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linode

Code a Note Taking App From Scratch - Full Stack HTML, CSS, JavaScript & Node.js

Build a full-stack note-taking app from scratch with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB, user accounts, and note CRUD.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video