Mac Power Users episode 120.

Note taking. Welcome back to another episode of the Mac Power Users

Podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside with David Sparks and we're

joined today by Mike Rody who is the author of the Sketch Note Handbook,

and an expert in this idea of note-taking and sketch noting.

And welcome, Mike, we're just thrilled to have you with us. You know, Mike, I have to admit admit I was just really excited when you said you were going to come on the show because I'm a big fan of yours and for those of you who don't know Mike he's a UI designer so he's a you know he's a certified nerd like

the rest of us but Mike has built this whole idea around a word called sketch noting and I guess we're gonna in this show we're

gonna talk about what Mike does we're also gonna talk about digital note taking

and kind of compare the two but Mike before we start anything I'd like you to just kind of

the two, but Mike, before we start anything, I'd like you to just kind of explain a little bit about what sketchnoting is.

Well, the idea of sketchnoting came to me about roughly five years ago,

and I, it's as it turns out I did it in high school and college but forgot about it as I got into business because I was so focused on text that I I got into this rhythm of taking super detailed text notes either typewritten or very often handwritten, and I would

hand write these things in pencil with a giant book.

And the way I approached notes back then was I would almost try and capture every detail that I could.

So I would try and listen, capture everything, and it just became kind of a burden.

It was a lot of work to capture these notes and the funny thing was I

I looked back and I'd never really referred to them after I took them so they had a little

value while I took them but after that they were more or less worthless

because they were so dense it was difficult to go back and find anything in them.

The text notes that I typed were maybe a little better because you could search them.

But I was really still into this tactile note-taking and wanted to do some of that.

So I got to the frustration point near the end of 2006 and in early 2007.

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