The Sketchnote Ideabook
The Sketchnote Ideabook is the sketchbook designed for sketchnoters.
I’m Mike Rohde, author of two bestselling books on sketchnoting: The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook.
After years of sketchnoting, none of the sketchbooks, notepads, or journals I’ve used had all of the elements I wanted in one book. So, I’ve partnered with Airship Notebooks to create the sketchbook of my dreams… And it has everything I imagined.
Love the nerdy details?
We believe our sketchbook is awesome, but we appreciate you wanting to look at every little nerdy detail.
First, here’s the Kickstarter video we created for The Sketchnote Ideabook:
Here’s a video explaining why I created The Sketchnote Ideabook with Airship Notebooks:
Details make The Sketchnote Ideabook truly unique.
The Sketchnote Ideabook is designed with a sketchnoter like you in mind. It’s a medium sized, A5 (5.8” x 8.3”) sketchbook that gives you plenty of space to work while remaining ultra portable and durable.
A tough cover with heart
The Sketchnote Ideabook is made to last. Its soft-touch polymer-wrapped cover feels fantastic in your hands. Inside that touchable gray wrapper is a hardcover, sewn sketchbook. It can take a beating while aging gracefully. We like to say it’s baby softand travel tough.
Did we mention the paper?
The heart of The Sketchnote Ideabook is high-performance, bright white paper designed to capture your sketchnotes and ideas without fail. The paper is an ultra-heavyweight 160 GSM (110lb), brilliant white paper with slight tooth, designed to take pens and markers with water-based inks beautifully, with no bleed or show-through.You’ll adore this paper.
Lay-flat stitched binding
The Sketchnote Ideabook’s cover and lay-flat stitched binding give your pen or pencil full access to every last bit of the delicious, heavyweight paper inside. It’s great for lefties too.
Sketchnoting references
The interior front and back covers feature sketchnoting reference guides for those moments when you need inspiration, lettering tips or ideas for sketchnote layouts. The inside front cover of The Sketchnote Ideabook features sketchnoting reference guides and a place to make the book your own.
Icon Reference Pages
In the back of every Sketchnote Ideabook we’ve included an additional 8 perforated pages: 4 pages with large icon squares (6 icon squares per page/24 total); 2 pages with small icon squares (20 icon squares per page/40 total); and 2 blank pages (also handy as a barrier sheet for juicy alcohol markers).
Two bookmarks to track your book’s marks
To help you keep track of your work, we’ve included dual bookmark ribbons, one orange and one aqua. Use these to mark your current work and another reference point anywhere else in the book.
Built-in, expandable pocket
We’ve included a built-in, expandable pocket in the back of The Sketchnote Ideabook. There, you can store key scraps of ideas or bits of reference material from your creative journeys, knowing they’ll stay put.
Secure elastic strap
To keep your work secure, the cover is held firmly closed with a strong elastic strap. What you put in your Sketchnote Ideabook stays in your Sketchnote Ideabook.
Bringing the details home
All of these details come together in The Sketchnote Ideabook, the sketchnoter’s sketchbook. Get in on the ground floor and start using a notebook that loves you back.
Details at a glance:
160 GSM — Ultra-thick, smooth, brilliant white paper that won’t bleed through or show through. That’s equivalent to 110 lb paper in the US.
128 Pages — A solid book of heavy-duty paper with a lay-flat binding that lets you use every bit of every page.
A5 Paper — A medium-sized book that’s easy to carry anywhere and has the space you need for your ideas.
The Sketchnote Ideabook is a sketchnoter’s sketchbook. That’s the whole point.
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Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.
He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.
Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to help accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual thinking challenges.
He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.
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