In this Tinderbox Meetup, Mike Rohde, author of the Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, joined us to explain visual note-taking (his history as print, web, and user experience designer[how people actually use tools]).
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# Sketchnotes with Mike Rohde
## Mike’s Background
Mike shared
* his origin story with us
* the evolution of his visual note-taking process, and
* the steps of Sketchnote taking
### About Mike
**Mike Rohde** is a designer, teacher, and author of _The Sketchnote Handbook_ and _The Sketchnote Workbook_, co-creator of _The Sketchnote Ideabook_, founder of _Sketchnote Army_, and Illustrator of REWORK, REMOTE, and The $100 Startup. He lives in Milwaukee. Learn more at [rohdesign.com]([ Ссылка ])
## Live Sketchnote exercise
He walked us through an exercise to teach us how to Sketchnote; we reviewed
* the five fundamental visual elements
* how to develop your own visual library (strategies and tactics)
- Pictures (things and animals)
- Icons
- Text (2 line vs. 3 line)
- People
# Insights Snapshot
* **on note-taking**, focuses on the purpose and context of the note-taking effort on hand; pick the tool that fits the purpose. Key is to be a neutral observer of the conversation.
* **on note-taking purpose**, to be intentional on the documentation of what is important (to me, the note-taker), the knowledge I need to retain to do my job better or help the community
* **on preparation**, preparation is key, if possible pre-take your notes by creating headlines, people involved, review of presentations, etc.
- **on practicality**, think about what the thing I want to get out of it [the notes] is and work backward from there.
* **on simplicity**, think about the simplest way to communicate an idea, something that will prompt memory
* *on action**, note-taking is a means to the end, not the end, notes should drive actions.
* **on which apps to use**, play with numerous apps, future out what they do best, how well you know them, your timeline and project needs
* **on incremental formalization**, the idea of embracing incremental formalization is key, you can go back and modify or update your notes
**YOU DON’T NEED TO BE AN ARTIST: ANYONE CAN USE VISUALS TO ENHANCE THEIR MEMORY AND LEARNING**
# Sketchnotes and Tinderbox
We reviewed the three approaches you can use to integrate images into Tinderbox: 1) Image Adornment, 2) Embedded in $Text, 3) Source from the hard drive and the use of $Fill, and high-level methods of extracting meaning from the images (Sketchnotes), e.g., attributes, explode, dynamic note creation, export code, etc.
## Resources
See TBX forum post for a TON of references and links: [ Ссылка ]
