☛ Useless except to say hi 👋, but with a lot more markup 😀.

I wanted to send a poke during our initial discussion about poking but I never got around to it.

(For those of you reading this who have no clue what a poke is, the “poke” was a feature on Facebook that sent a notification to someone. It was mostly useless)

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Thanks, I’m aware of sketchnoting and it never really worked for me. It often seems to become decorative to a point where I’m not sure it supports understanding anymore. I think it’s primarily a technique for capturing others’ ideas. When I draw when listening to a talk it’s more for attention and concentration, i.e. this digital collage of scanned fountain pen drawings: https://i.snap.as/xaP7NecI.png.

To me Lynda Barry’s work is more interesting in that it’s about visually developing your own awareness, perception, ideas and stories.

It builds on many of these traditions, but there is a rather sizeable movement in the physical world as well as lots online of sketchnotes which might fit the bill for you Roy.

The canonical book/textbook for the space seems to be The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual note taking by Mike Rohde.

For a solid overview of the idea in about 30 minutes, I found this to be a useful video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evLCAYlx4Kw

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