Courses & textbooks
Yale Open Courses
oyc.yale.edu
Courses & textbooksfree
Recorded Yale lecture courses with free syllabi and transcripts. Lecture transcript pages import well when you're studying a subject end to end.
Full lecture transcripts paired with a syllabus fit a notebook built to study a subject the way a semester course would teach it, section by section, rather than through scattered articles. It suits topics where working through an instructor's own structure and argument matters more than the newest research. The courses were recorded some years back, so fast-moving subjects may need newer material alongside the transcripts.
Import into Gemini Notebook
- 1Copy the link above (or a specific page from the site).
- 2In your notebook, click Add source → Website.
- 3Paste the link and confirm — several links can be pasted at once, one per line.
Lecture notes and open textbooks are the highest signal-to-noise sources for studying — often better than the slides you were given.
More courses & textbooks sources
- MIT OpenCourseWareFull courses with downloadable lecture notes and exams — the notes PDFs are ideal notebook sources.
- OpenStaxPeer-reviewed open textbooks with free PDF downloads. One textbook chapter per source works well.
- Khan AcademyArticle-format lessons import directly; video lessons come in via their YouTube versions.
- CourseraUniversity-backed online courses. Course pages and syllabi paste in as Website sources; most lecture video sits behind enrollment.
- edXUniversity courses from MIT, Harvard and 160+ schools, many free to audit. Course syllabi and lecture transcripts can seed a structured learning notebook.