July Sketchnote Lab Live: Ask Mike Anything about Sketchnotes!
On Saturday, at 12 noon CDT, you can ask me your questions about sketchnoting: challenges, how-to questions, and more get answered by me!
On Saturday, July 26th, I’ll host a live “Ask Mike Anything” session from 12-1 CDT about sketchnoting questions! This live session is free for all subscribers.
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If you have questions for me to answer, you can leave them here, in the comments.
How to digitize sketchnotes? (This is a somewhat large multipart question, probably a session in and of itself, but just thought to put it down here).
1. Any change in your approach since the Sketchnote handbook?
2. Personally, looking at "fully digitizing" - so not showing the book, but just the page itself as if it could have been done in a digital app.
Is some level of manual tweaking needed? Or, are there apps using algorithmic or AI approaches that can just work, removing any borders, handling skew, adjusting contrast, etc?
If tweaking is needed, are there alternatives to Photoshop that you could suggest or have heard people getting good results with?
3a. How to digitize a single sheet?
3b. How to digitize from a moleskine, of various sizes, from pocket, "medium sized" 5 x8, and larger sizes?
3c. How to keep the page flat - is there any tool for this?
4. If I want to make a pdf book from a moleskine, it seems like it could take awhile.
4a. Are there reasonable services out there that can do this?
4b. Does it help to have the binding removed and scanned? (depending on how one feels about the notebook, I suppose)
5. How can one extract and have the textual and visual information within the sketchnote accessible and searchable? Are there personal knowledge tools that help here?
Does it need to be a pdf, or can image files contain meta information?
Right now, I have files sitting in a folder or an app that I tend to forget about, so looking for a way to access them when needed, or to remind me that I did a sketchnote on some topic a few years back that I am looking at again.