How sketchnotes fit into my personal knowledge management
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- worth doing even if you don't feel like you can draw well
- really, I just draw stick figures
- good for your own thoughts and other people's
- own thoughts:
- non-linear
- visual metaphors & organizers can be helpful
- can be a launchpad for more details
- other people's thoughts: distill key points from a talk, book, etc. using my understanding
- visual cues make it easy to see important things first
- doodling is fun
- IDs help with linking (ex: 2024-10-17-02)
- How I use sketchnotes:
- Flesh out an idea, especially during non-computer time
- Sketch talks or books to make them easier to review
- Optical character recognition (Google Cloud Vision API, etc.) to blog text: I edit this to provide a good text alternative in blog posts
- My evil plan
- Sketchnotes are very shareable
- People are always looking for visuals to add.
- When people share them, they usually tell me about it
- I get to find out what else people are thinking about & learning from.
- More learning! More fun!
- It's also a nice way to give back to people who've shared what they learned
- Then they might share more!
- Sketchnotes are very shareable
I've been enjoying using sketchnotes as an idea launchpad for audio braindumps or blog posts, as a quick way to review the key points of a book or talk, and as a way to participate in the larger conversation. It's easy for me to link to sketches and extract the text within them.
Someday I'll probably improve my ability to search for the text within sketches. Right now, I just go by filenames and the text in my blog posts. I can probably make something that goes through the text annotations in the JSON files from Google Cloud Vision, or maybe I can turn them into a text file that can be updated when I write a blog post. Hmm, that actually sounds pretty straightforward, I should go do that…
Examples of my evil plan working:
- @publicvoit@graz.social: "You really made my day!"
- @fsf@hostux.social periodically posts my Why I love free software sketch.
- My How to Read a Book sketch often gets shared, including in collections like 10 Brilliant Examples Of Sketch Notes: Notetaking For The 21st Century
- Even my personal stuff gets picked up and shared sometimes, and then sometimes that inspires people, and then I get inspired by the things they do.
Mwahaha!
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