Why sell your notes at all?
The best notes on any course almost never reach the people who would benefit most. They sit on one laptop or die in a group chat, while the student who wrote them — who organised every chapter and worked every problem — gets nothing for the effort.
Selling fixes both sides of that. The next student finds exactly what their course needs, and you get paid for work you have already done. Notes are the rare asset that earns more than once: write them once, sell them every semester the course runs.
Notes are the rare asset that earns more than once.
What you can — and can’t — sell
Sell what you created: your own lecture notes, summaries, revision sheets, flashcards, worked solutions, and study guides written in your own words. That work is yours.
Don’t upload material you didn’t make — a lecturer’s slide deck, scans of a textbook, or exam papers the university owns. If a resource was genuinely useful to you, the fix is easy: rebuild it in your own words and your own structure, which usually makes it better anyway.
Selling your first set of notes, step by step
Pick your strongest course
Start with a class you did well in and have clean, complete notes for — ideally a large required course where lots of students need help every year.Tidy them up
Add a title page, fix headings, and make sure a stranger could follow them without your memory of the lecture. Readable beats exhaustive.Write an honest description
Say which course, which topics, and what format. Buyers preview before paying, so an accurate description builds trust and cuts refunds.Set a fair price
Price for the value of the time you save the buyer, not the number of pages. A focused exam summary can be worth more than a 60-page brain dump.Publish and let it work
Once it’s live it can sell to every student on that course, this year and next. You keep 70% of every sale, paid out weekly.
How getting paid works
Browsing Doczaar is free — buyers only pay for what they download, and they can preview before they commit. When someone buys your notes, you keep 70% of every sale. Your share lands in your balance and pays out weekly, automatically.
Because the same notes can sell repeatedly, your earnings compound with every upload. Five solid sets for five busy courses beats one perfect set every time.
Frequently asked questions
Your own notes — written in your own words from a lecture or your reading — are your work, and you can sell them. What you cannot sell is copyrighted material you did not create: a lecturer’s slides, a publisher’s textbook, past exam papers owned by your university, or someone else’s notes. When in doubt, rewrite it in your own words and your own structure.
It depends on the course and the quality, but the model is simple: you keep 70% of every sale, and the same set of notes can sell over and over. A strong summary for a large first-year course can keep earning for years with no extra work after the upload.
Doczaar pays out weekly. Once a buyer downloads your notes, your 70% share is added to your balance and sent to you on the next payout run — you do not have to chase anyone for it.
Clear, well-organised material for big required courses, exam-focused summaries, worked solutions, and condensed revision sheets. Buyers are usually a few days from a deadline, so anything that saves them time and reduces panic sells well.