Build A Six-Icon Work Vocabulary

Your best sketchnote marks should become boringly repeatable. That is what makes them fast. Choose by frequency Do not start by asking what would be fun to draw. Ask what you need to capture often. In operational meetings that may be owner, deadline, blocker, metric, dependency, and decision. In learning sessions it may be principle, example, question, warning, tool, and action. Keep the marks primitive Use basic shapes, containers, connectors, icons, and symbols. A blocker can be a small wall. A decision can be a fork. A deadline can be a clock. These marks are not art assets; they are…

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