The Sketchnote Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Visual Note Taking

Rohde's book is the practical guide to sketchnoting — a technique of taking notes as a combination of text, diagrams and simple drawings, designed to be understood at a glance by the person who took them and anyone who reads them afterwards. The method itself is less important than the habit it teaches: thinking visually, compressing ideas to their essentials, drawing the relationship between concepts instead of only describing them. For product direction this is a useful skill precisely because so few PMs have it; most meetings would be shorter, and most artefacts clearer, if the discipline of sketchnoting were common. A short illustrated book, accessible even to people who think they cannot draw.