This document discusses sketchnoting and provides tips for creating visual notes and summaries. It encourages focusing on capturing the big ideas from what you see, hear, read or experience using words and images. Various sketchnote structures and techniques are presented such as using different line styles, arrows, bullets and icons to convey information visually in a way that helps with recall. The document emphasizes that sketchnoting is about communication over art and that one should focus on the basics and not worry about the quality of the drawings.

1. VisualNotes
seeing what matters
OK…and being a little different

2. Toomuchdataoutthere

3. What?
Can’t hear ya

4. Ofcoursenot
I wasn’t using a critical sense

5. Let’stryagain…

6. Toomuchdataoutthere

7. Peopleforgetwhattheyread,see,hear,
experience

8. beafullwit
includeyourvisualsenses
tofocuson
whatyoucansee

9. Ahhhhhhh!

10. Frustratednotetaker
Focused on too many damn details

11. Writing, writing, writing…
Justtokeepup

12. Whatif…
we could bite-size it down?

13. By focusing on capturing…
thebigideas

15. Butfirst…
a message from our sponsor
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16. Imeanthis

17. <=>and fun, too

18. sketchnotes
visualmapsfor
meetings : speeches : conferences :
books : TED talks…
whateva

19. wordsandimages
For the meaningful ideas only

20. Engageyourmind
What you hear activates your hand to create
visualnotes

21. Createdrealtime

22. ornot

23. !steallikeanartist
thenounproject.com

24. Canyoudothis?
We’re you ever a kid?

25. Conveyideas
Communication over art
Perfect sux

26. thebasics

27. PracticeYou’re in a gob of meetings anyway

28. sometips

30. whysketchnote?

31. wholebrain::betterrecall::feelstuff

32. getin

33. relax
Free yourself to focus on the
bigstuff

35. Iliketype

36. Sketchnoteanatomy

37. typ
ogra
phy

38. howabout
somethingwecould
alldo

39. Thebreakdown

40. alittlephotoshop
anyone

41. intimidatedby
faces?
me,too.

42. don’tbe

43. thedavegraymethod

45. drawingtype
allthesamebutdifferent

46. arrows;bullets;lines;connectors;
dividers;icons;ohmy

50. MikeRohde

51. Let’s
practice

52. again…artover
communication

53. we’ll start with
faces

55. figures

59. elements

61. shucks

63. p
o
o
r
me

64. Goodorbad…it’sjustadog

65. Yousuck.
Sowhat.

66. compare

67. you

68. to

69. you

72. linear
✔story-like
✔2-pagespreads
❌rigidflow

73. radial
✔organicflow
✔addinfoanywhere
❌littlehardertoread,
complex

74. vertical
✔easytoread
❌onceyoucommit…

75. path
✔describessteps
❌canrunouttaroom

76. modular
✔organizesinfowell
❌canlimitinfo

77. skyscraper
✔sayfor,paneldiscussions
paceyourself
❌limitedspace

78. popcorn
✔goforit.anythingworks.
✔emphasizeinfovslocation
❌canbedifficulttofollow

79. That’sallI’mgonnasayfor
structure
whew

80. well…almost

81. thebasics

83. scancoverofhandbookhere

84. getsticky

85. going
digital
❤ iPad

86. “cheating”allowed

87. visual-one-page-
summary-book-
notes

88. collage
it

89. steallikeanartist

90. takeaways?

91. so…
ratherthan…

93. feel…

95. yes
you
can

96. thebeginningyour beginning

98. extracredit

99. becareful