About Sketchnote Lab
There's a better way to capture your thinking: one that helps you make sense of complex problems and communicate ideas clearly.
Sketchnote Lab is where you learn to use visual thinking as a practical, everyday tool. Whether you're new to sketchnoting or already know the basics, my goal is the same: teaching you how to use sketchnoting in real work, not just in theory.
Every month, we work on real skills, tackle real challenges, and build the kind of visual thinking practice that actually changes how you think.
What are Sketchnotes?
Sketchnotes are rich visual notes created from a mix of handwriting, drawings, hand-lettering, shapes, and visual elements like arrows, boxes, and lines.
Sketchnotes don’t require special drawing skills but require you to listen and visually synthesize and summarize ideas using writing and drawing.
What happens here
Monthly Live Lab sessions on Zoom — Free, 1-hour live workshops where I apply my problem-solving sketchnoting process to real challenges, and teach foundational sketchnoting skills.
The Sketchnote Lab Dispatch — a monthly newsletter featuring five cool, hand-picked articles from the visual thinking world, plus updates on what’s happening here in the Lab.
The Lab Partner Vault — every recorded session going all the way back to December 2024, yours to watch and reference whenever you need them.
Exclusive posts and videos — sketchnoting techniques, visual thinking in practice, and how to use these skills in real-world work.
Special discounts on my books, workshops, events, and other resources.
Live Lab sessions and the Dispatch are free. The Vault, exclusive posts, and discounts are for Supporting and Founding Lab Partners.
By the way, Founding Lab Partners get a 1-hour one-on-one Zoom session with me each year. Bring your real challenges, and we’ll work through them together.
Start Here
These posts give you a good feel for what we’re up to here:
Who is Mike Rohde?
I coined the term sketchnotes in 2006 after running experiments with visual notetaking, and I’ve spent two decades since teaching people around the world how to think and communicate visually.
I’m the author of the best-selling books The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook. These two books have introduced hundreds of thousands of people to visual thinking.
I’ve taught sketchnoting at in-person and online workshops worldwide, and I’m the founder of Sketchnote Army and host of the Sketchnote Army Podcast.
My illustration work has appeared in bestselling books, including REWORK, REMOTE, $100 Startup, The Culture Playbook, and Honest SEO.
When you join Sketchnote Lab, you’re learning directly from me: the person who literally wrote the book on sketchnoting within a community small enough that I actually know who’s here.
Join Sketchnote Lab
If you’re ready to go beyond knowing sketchnoting to actually using it on your real work, your real problems, your real projects… this is the place.
Becoming a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner directly funds the work that makes Sketchnote Lab possible. I’m genuinely grateful for every person who invests in this community, and I work hard to make sure it’s worth it.
