Ideas worth stealing: visual note-taking by Austin Kleon
Sketching on the balcony of The Mohawk, in Austin, TX // Photo by Chris Glass
Video takes too long and photographs don’t say anything — visual note-taking is the perfect medium for capturing your live event. Think of it as cartoon journalism: I listen for the stories and ideas worth stealing, then I turn them into images that are fun, instantly digestible, and easily shared around the web.
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From The Economist’s Human Potential Conference
Jeffrey Tambor, from SXSW 2010
Notes from SXSW 2009
The National on Austin City Limits
Learn how to capture ideas worth stealing with your own visual notes
I love teaching folks how to take notes with pictures, words, and visual thinking.
My workshops can be tweaked for almost any environment or occupation.
Watch my visual thinking for writers talk →
It’s easy to learn the basics of visual note-taking.
Here are a few tips →
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In 2010, I organized a standing-room-only SXSW panel that launched a small army of visual note-takers. Watch the panel →
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