General Sketchnote Tips and Ideas

• Leave White Space as You Sketchnote: This gives you room to come back and add more detail, either visually or with text. If you are sketchnoting while a someone is speaking, this is space you can doodle in or otherwise comeback to if a speaker is dull or otherwise not generating new notes.
• Play With Different Page Flows: In general you’ll find it natural to take notes left to right, top to bottom, but don’t be afraid to play with different approaches. Depending on what you are sketchnoting, you might try putting the main topic in the middle of the page and put notes in clockwise around it. You might designate certain zones of the page for certain types of information, or create a table that you add doodles to.
• Look for Lists or Organizational Cues: The principles that make for a good talk or address also lend themselves to good notes. Speakers are constantly trying to use things like metaphors, lists of suggestions or other allusions that help illustrate a point. All of those are great fodder for starting to sketchnote. And you’ll find looking for those kinds of things in what a speaker says will help you become a better listener too.
• Look for inspiration: There’s an infinite number of ways out there to sketchnote, and there’s a growing number of people out there doing and in turn sharing their own sketchnotes. See what you can find with a simple google search or browsing pintrest boards. There’s folks on twitter that post their doodles and sketchnotes. I personally keep a pintrest board for sketchnotes I find that inspire me.