"Doodle!" Recommended preface of "Use Visual Templates to Turn Your Life": Make good use of visual notes and communicate with pictures and texts to open a window to the world.

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There is a saying: “A picture is worth a thousand words (opens in a new tab)”, have you heard of it?

To be honest, when I hear these words, which specializes in teaching copywriting (opens in a new tab), I always feel a little sad. But I have to admit that these words do make sense - even as a senior writer, I still have to follow the trends and trends of the times, remind myself to step out of my comfort zone and boldly embrace Pictures and Text (opens in a new tab) and AV (opens in a new tab) world.

Although I am usually accustomed to communicating and expressing through words, now I have also begun to use the way of thinking with images, and strengthen the use of graphic creation and different media to communicate with the outside world.

Speaking of “[Graffiti! Use visual templates to flip your life: 6 frameworks

The young and promising teacher Qiu Yilin is my Facebook friend, and I have gradually become familiar with him because we are in the Facebook group “Doodle! Use visual notes to turn your life around (opens in a new tab)”. Later, we got to know each other because of the First Visual Notes Annual Conference (opens in a new tab) held at the end of 2020.

To be honest, there are many people in this world who can draw, and there are countless illustrators I know. But it is rare to see someone like Mr. Qiu who not only works hard to create, but also actively promotes visual notes and graphic creation. In fact, he is able to summarize his learning experience and output relevant knowledge about visual thinking and graphic note-taking in an orderly manner through Facebook groups, e-newsletters (opens in a new tab) and online courses, which is quite commendable.

As the founder of the “I love taking notes (opens in a new tab)” community, I also really like taking notes (opens in a new tab). In addition to using text to keep records, I have recently started to doodle in my notebook, or use the iPad to draw various visual notes. I also design knowledge graph cards on a Mac computer.

The longer I dabble in visual note-taking, the more I feel it is a skill worth learning and one that needs to be promoted to more friends. In the past two years, I have not only been inspired by the Facebook group “Doodle! Turn your life around with visual notes (opens in a new tab)”, but I have also been a loyal reader of the e-newsletter “Visualization Coach Yilin-Start New Thinking with Images (opens in a new tab)”. Nowadays, I am becoming more and more accustomed to using pictures and texts to convey my opinions, ideas and ideas, so I highly recommend everyone to try it!

Recently, I am very happy to know that Teacher Qiu Yilin is about to publish his new book “[Doodle!” Use visual templates to turn your life: 6 frameworks

If you are interested in thinking with images or taking graphic notes, I am happy to recommend this new book to you. Of course, the reason why I want to recommend this book to everyone is not just because the author is my Facebook friend… but in recent years, in the local publishing market, there are very few books on related topics, and most of them are translated books that have traveled across the ocean. What’s even better is that this book condenses a lot of Mr. Qiu’s own creative essence and valuable experience. It is not only down-to-earth but also of reference value for local readers in Taiwan!

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Further reading

• “Why top executives use cross-page weekly calendars” Recommended Preface: Learn the work habits and thinking patterns of excellent executives
• “Reading becomes a “high-return investment” through deliberate self-study: “Combined academic reading” turns a helpless life, and you have 10 million pots of gold at the age of 40” Recommended preface: Build a solid dream, remember the principle of “input, extract, and re-output”