For: Entrepreneurial visual thinkers who would like to learn more effectively
Outcome: people have taken their first few sketchnotes and are ready to use it for learning
Possible collaborator: Timothy Kenny

Book idea #1: Accelerate Your Learning With Sketchnotes

• Why sketchnote?
  • Benefits
    • Understanding
    • Reviewing
    • Connecting
• Common challenges
  • “I don’t have time.”
  • “I can’t draw.”
  • “My handwriting sucks.”
• Tools
  • Paper
    • Scan
    • Camera tips
  • Digital sketchnoting: How I set up Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, downloadable resources
• Sketchnote basics

• Getting started
  
• Adding emphasis
• Drawing emotions
• Drawing stick figures
• Drawing symbols
• Drawing abstract concepts
• Organizing the page
• How to sketchnote a presentation
• How to sketchnote a book – http://sachachua.com/blog/2013/04/how-i-read-books-and-do-visual-book-reviews/
• How to sketch your plans – http://sachachua.com/blog/2013/07/visual-metaphors-and-layouts-for-planning-your-life/
• Sketchnotes and business – Business Model Canvas, product-market fit…
• Organizing and reviewing your sketchnotes
• Connecting through sketchnotes
• Drawing practice
  • Stick figures
  • Emotions and body language – http://sachachua.com/blog/2013/07/sketchnote-lessons-drawing-emotions/
  • Lettering – http://sachachua.com/blog/2013/08/sketchnote-lessons-quick-lettering/
  • Banners and ribbons – http://sachachua.com/blog/2013/08/sketchnoting-tutorial-banners-and-ribbons/
  • Connectors – http://sachachua.com/blog/2013/08/sketchnote-lessons-arrows-and-connectors/
  • Speech balloons and thought clouds – http://sachachua.com/blog/2013/08/sketchnote-lessons-speech-bubbles-and-thought-clouds/
  • Symbols

Book idea #2: Learning With Sketchnotes

Audience: Teachers, homeschoolers/unschoolers/parents who want to
teach more engagingly and help their students develop notetaking
skills
Outcome: Ready to practise on their own, and possibly teaching others
how to sketchnote in their classes

• Why sketchnote?
• Examples
• Common challenges
• Getting started
• Sketchnote basics
  • Annotating printed text
  • Starting with hand-written notes
  • Adding emphasis
  • Starting with stick figures
  • Drawing symbols
  • Drawing abstract concepts
  • Organizing the page
• Sketching your preparatory notes
• Sketching your lesson
• Sketching worksheets
• Teaching others how to sketchnote
  • A one-page guide
• Drawing practice
  • (as above)
  • Symbols
    • Science
    • Technology
    • Math
    • History
    • Art
    • Language
    • Music
    • …