How to make cheat sheets in Latex?

Question

I want to make cheat sheets for my personal use. I want to use this opportunity to get a good hand on LaTeX too. (I am already comfortable making simple documents math related in LaTeX.)

Now I want to try making cheat sheets in LaTeX. But I don't know how to do it. In cheat sheets, usually the page is split into multiple rectangular sections and each one has a few commands or notes inside it. Each rectangular section has a border etc.

How can it be done in LaTeX? Are any packages available to do this? Do you think TikZ will be a good idea for this?

Answer 1

Consider using multicol.

And consider familiarizing yourself with CTAN. Most things TeX end up there sooner or later, though it does require some digging if you don't know what you're looking for.

Answer 2

I've been making my own cheat sheets as well for various things. I really like how the Latex cheat sheet found here looks. I suggest grabbing the tex source and stealing some ideas from it :).