In the last few years, there has been an explosion of new note taking apps which only seems to be accelerating. This has been a wonderful blessing to those of us who got fed up with hearing about work chat (and even more fed up with jokes about work chat) and wanted something more than…
Back a hundred years ago there were four options for reading interesting content. Buy a (good) newspaper, buy a magazine or journal, buy a book or borrow a book from a library. The internet changed that. Now we have instant access to the entirety of human knowledge instantly. But how do we find the most…
Growing up, I struggled with reading. As someone diagnosed with Dyslexia, that is hardly surprising. Last year I set my self a modest goal to read more books. My target was a book every month for 2019. I did it, so I decided to set a more ambitious reading goal. Read two books every month…
Recently, I found myself wanting to save a tweet storm to Evernote but I wasn’t sure how. Would the standard web clipper produce the results that I wanted? Or should I use a different service first to get a simplified view. After some investigation, I came upon the best way to save twitter threads to…
In many fields of life, there are terms that can be confusing. Sketchnoting is no exception. There are related ideas that emerged independently that seem to be talking about the same thing. Today we’ll look at two of those ideas. Sketchnotes vs Mindmaps. Here’s a quick summary answer. Some sketchnotes are also mindmaps, but not…
What if you could remember more, and have more fun doing so? That’s exactly the benefits of sketchnoting summed up in one sentence. Sketchnotes are a fun and creative way to take notes and record information that help you remember more even if you actually record less. But there’s more to them than just that.…