Giulia Forsythe works out loud about her visual practice - why and how she sketchnotes, who she has learned and drawn inspiration from. Joyce Seitzinger shared this on Twitter in June 2015. At this point I am curious about sketchnoting, and love seeing other peoples sketchnotes. But feel very inhibited myself about sketching and feel like it would be a big effort and a lot of practice to get good at this. I am trying to consolidate some other PKM skills right now and deferring getting started seriously with this.
Sacha Chua works out loud about use of colour in sketch notes. Lots of examples of different use of colour. Discussion of Evernote tagging of sketches.
Studies have found the most effective note-taking techniques are active, whereas rereading, highlighting, and underlining are passive techniques.
Students who wrote longhand notes outperformed laptop note takers in recalling information to pass the quiz. And when the researchers examined the students’ notes, they found a clue as to why: The laptop notes tended to include a lot of verbatim transcription of the video, whereas handwritten notes couldn’t be written fast enough to do the same.
A series of studies tested drawing against writing and other approaches for memorizing words, and found drawing came out on top.
I noticed that the daily logs with no drawings did give me all the information about what I did, but those days with drawings were totally impressed in my mind