Visual note-taking is a powerful method to enhance creativity, improve memory retention, and simplify complex ideas. If you’re already using Obsidian to organize your thoughts and manage knowledge, ...

Ever heard of the “affect heuristic”? Short version: How we feel is how we think. Positive feelings lead to higher motivation and willingness to try new things. I’ve never been a doodler but I sketch ...

Brodie was a bright elementary art student with a quick and dry sense of humor. He liked to draw—he loved to draw—and he was good at it. His solutions to our project problems in elementary art always ...

“Sketchnotes” are an increasingly popular form of visual note-taking. By combining text and images, sketchnotes are not only beautiful, but often easier to recall than text alone. The technique is an ...

The art of using pictures to represent words has been around practically since the beginning of time—think cave drawings. But in the business community, visual note-taking—which involves distilling in ...

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here. Scrintal is a promising new app for organizing ideas ...

A few months ago, I was flattered when someone tweeted the following picture, a visual representation of an article I published on Inc. I had seen more and more of these ‘visual notes’ popping up ...

NotebookLM just got a major visual upgrade thanks to Nano Banana Pro, and after testing it with real notes, research and images, I found seven ways it actually saves time — and makes complex ideas ...

Constanza Segovia works in a light-filled studio on the second floor of her home in the Parkville neighborhood of Hartford. And part of Hartford she is: Segovia is a designer and artist who uses ...