Notebook style

Make explainer videos in a notebook style: pen on ruled paper with margin notes, scene by scene with narration. Suits maths and worked examples.

Updated 23 July 2026

Make a video in this style
Short answer: The notebook style draws in pen on ruled paper, with the arrows and margin notes of someone working a problem out. It suits worked examples, maths and study material, because it looks like thinking in progress rather than a finished, polished answer.
The script this video was made from
[title] Style card: Notebook

[scene 1]
[voice] Choose Notebook when it should look like the problem being worked out, not the answer announced.
[caption] The problem being worked out
[drawing] The left two thirds of the frame hold a calculation written in four short lines, one under the other, each line a little indented from the one above. The first line reads 1000 x 1.07. The second reads 1070 x 1.07. The third reads 1145 x 1.07. The fourth line is enclosed in a hand-drawn box and reads 1225. A curved arrow links each line to the next, running down the left margin. In the right third of the frame, a small rising staircase of four bars of increasing height, the tallest on the right, with a short arrow above it pointing up. In the top right corner, a doodled spiral. In the right margin beside the second line, three words are written smaller and at a slight slant: SEVEN PERCENT AGAIN. There is no other text in the frame. The boxed final line is the focal point.
[seconds] 12

Paste it into Studio with Use my words exactly, pick the style, and you get this video back.

Every scene of your video is drawn in the Notebook style, so the whole thing feels like one hand from start to finish.

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