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I am new to LaTeX and have searched around for templates and examples, but have not found much. I looked at fancyheaders package but was unable to ascertain whether the setup was possible in a simple and straightforward manner. I searched left side headers, and headers overtop margins and google images produced very few to no results for this style.

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    These are called sections - check package titlesec. Anyway, mi suggestion would be to look at comprehensive packages to style books, like memoir or scrbook. BTW, welcome! – Rmano Dec 31 '20 at 09:16
  • Text in margins can be placed with \reversemarginpar and \marginpar. See for example here to place section as margin notes. But I would first look for alternatives styles, like hitec, even if you want a wide margin to take notes or so, since the margin is never a good place for headers with more than one or two words. – Fran Dec 31 '20 at 10:10
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    If you are new to LaTeX, I suggest you not to learn LaTeX but rather learn OpTeX. You'll see that customization of the layout of the pages there is very easy, and everything else is much easier, elegant and understandable too. http://petr.olsak.net/optex/ – User Dec 31 '20 at 12:55

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titlesec allows you to redefine the section commands. You can use \titleformat with the option leftmargin, to move the heading in the, well, left margin:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{titlesec}


\titleformat{\section}[leftmargin]{\normalfont\bfseries}{}{0pt}{}
\titlespacing{\section}{2.5cm}{2.5}{0.5cm}


\titleformat{\subsection}[leftmargin]{\normalfont}{}{0pt}{}
\titlespacing{\subsection}{2.5cm}{2.5}{0.5cm}


\begin{document}
  \blinddocument
\end{document}

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