In this episode of the podcast, hear from Josie Dee — a sketchnoter, author, script-writer, and poet as she shares how she entered into visual thinking and continues to use Sketchnotes every day in unique ways.

Josie found a niche at work where she captures sketchnotes that help clarify communications, and how initially it was a challenge to convince her colleagues of the benefits.

Hear the unique ways she meets colleagues where they are to teach sketchnoting and how she documents her research, using sketchnotes.

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Running Order

• Intro: Who is Josie Dee?
• Josie’s origin story
• Celebrating mistakes
• Using space to visualize
• Memory Palace Method
• Sketchnoting in the office
• Teaching sketchnoting to colleagues
• Sketchnotes for user research
• Sketchnotes for writing
• Using sketchnotes to break writer’s block
• Pandemic optimistic counterweights:
  • New puppy, Scully
  • Writing poetry
• Tools
• 3 tips
• Outro

Links

• Josie’s website
• Josie on Instagram
• Josie on Twitter
• Josie on Facebook
• The Memory Palace or Method of loci

Tools

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Tombow Brush Pens
• Muji Pens
• Staedtler Fineliner 308
• iskn Slate
• iPad Pro
• Apple Pencil

Tips

1. Don’t stop because you’ve plateaued — just keep doing it!
2. Play with alphabets and “Challenge Accepted!”
3. Listen to music in a new way.

Credits

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

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