Study Notes Skill — Development skill for Claude Code

study-notes-skill

A free Claude skill that turns lecture slides, textbook chapters or your own rough notes into two-column Word study notes for any uni subject. Tagged key points, sub-headings, a QUICK RECALL row and page caps. Works in Claude, and as a paste-in for ChatGPT and Gemini.

What you get

A Word document (.docx) with:

• Two columns. The subtopic on the left. On the right, bold sub-headings, short dash bullets and lettered lists for steps, stages and criteria.
• A few colour tags on the points most likely to be examined: KEY (must know), METHOD (how to apply), ★ EVIDENCE (the leading example or case) and APPLY (the practical point). Law students get RULE, TEST, CASE and POLICY instead. Tags are used sparingly on purpose.
• A QUICK RECALL row at the end of each topic for last-minute revision.
• Depth that matches the idea. Simple facts get one line. Hard, central ideas get the explanation, conditions and steps.
• Page limits that work. Ask for "max 2 pages" and it trims depth, not structure.

It can also reformat your own notes into the same table without rewriting your words, add a new topic to notes you already have, or tell you which topics in a textbook matter most.

Install

Quick start (no GitHub experience needed)

1. Open the study-notes folder above, click SKILL.md, then click the copy icon at the top right of the file.
2. Paste it into a new chat in ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
3. Attach your slides, textbook pages or notes and say what you want, for example:

   make study notes from these slides, max 2 pages

[!NOTE] **Before you start:** this needs an AI mode that can create files for you, because the Word file is built by a small script inside the chat. If yours can't, it gives you the notes as a table in the chat instead.

Claude (recommended)

1. Download SKILL.md.
2. In Claude, open your skills settings (Customize, then Skills) and upload the zip or simply paste the SKILL.md in chat.