Sketchnotes on Core 77

As you may know if you've skimmed through some of the note-taking on this blog, I love visual note-taking. The Moleskinerie blog does a good job of dishing out plenty of fun note-taking resources. Beyond that though Core 77 not too long ago launched a blog devoted to Sketchnotes - visual note-taking of talks and events. Plenty of nice looking examples and some handy tips too if you want to be doing it yourself (or just some nice styles to copy).

I think the magic lies really in the combination of visual - to be interesting and accessible - non-linear - to allow browsing - and mindmapping - simple linking that facilitates both the note-taking and the reading.

Of course they can end up as a big mismatch of crazy looking content. But in many cases people would prefer it to a dense transcript or a powerpoint deck any day.

Example pic below (I hope you'll agree that mine would fit in nicely).

Illustration by Craighton Berman