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 ...

Get out your notebook, pen and markers and put a smile on your face! We going to have fun! Did you know students taking notes by hand perform better? Did you know that drawing or doodling during note ...

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 ...

Long, structured and sequential texts are valued by the academic world, sometimes at the expense of a more global vision. Imagination, visual thinking and subjectivity have little place in this ...

“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 ...

Visual note-taking—which involves distilling in real time the points of a meeting, conference or speech with a combination of sketched images and words—has just started catching on.

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 ...