![]() ![]() What I do like about meetings is hearing viewpoints, especially those well-thought-out points. This book has emboldened me to take my not-ready-for-prime-time doodles and put them up in public (or at least on white boards in committee meetings). Sometimes I doodle in my note taking (which I've started to do more on paper, moving AWAY from Evernote, or OneNote or other online phone-based or laptop-based tools more on this another day). As an introvert, I often delay making comments during meetings. My suggestion: for the exercises, just instruct the reader to grab some scratch paper or a sketching pad to have beside the book. Brown isn't alone in this: the Sketchnote Handbook and others fall prey to this temptation. Side gripe: Do authors of hardback books really need to include blank pages for the reader to doodle in? Who would do that? It would totally ruin the book. Alternatively, I suggest setting up yourself with a 6-month learning plan to read a section, then do all the exercises, then go to the next one. To be honest, it's probably most appropriate as a textbook for a semester-long class in college. Really it was just about impossible for me to read the entire thing. Why it could be a bad thing: man, this book was kind of daunting to ever try and finish. It is 239 pages including notes, in type. And all the exercises! Man, so much stuff. Why it could be a good thing: This book has so much content! Wow, the author packed this book full of ideas and tips and techniques and background and sidebars. That could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your perspective: If you check the date on my reading of this book, you'll see it took me 3 months to finish. This is a really detailed book about Infodoodling, aka Sketchnoting. On the down side, the book is a bit too chatty (although I like that) and doesn't have enough advice on how you can improve the "artistic" aspect of your doodles if you want to. The alternative, having everybody talk in free form for hours, can get very tedious and headache inducing. Having activities like brainstorming, dot-voting, roadmaps and so on brings structure that makes things more effective and more efficient. This is very consistent with the ideas in Agile Retrospectives. Second, meetings can benefit a lot from having a game-like structure. I should not be afraid to share those notes, even if they look ugly – they are not an object of art, but means of communication. This is consistent with the ideas in the Mind-Mapping book, although not as specific as the ones there. If you're half as passionate as me about taking notes, you should give this book a try.įirst, I should use more visual/graphic elements in my note-taking. It walks you through your initial anxiety to try it, then shows you specific ways in which you can apply it and finally it explains how it is applicable to teams and/or the workplace. It makes a simple claim: visual thinking is under-appreciated it's a powerful learning and communication tool that should be employed more.
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