Today I created a more detailed diagram of the process of digestion which was discussed in my nutrition class. The process of digestion is rather complex, and to me the best way to understand this process is to conceptualize it visually. Looking at this image, in addition to the my experience of drawing it out, […]

Even though I probably will not be doing any visual notes again, I recognize how useful these special notes can be for retaining information. It really is a more active way in retrieving information you learned earlier in the day and reshaping it as your own. Personally, I did feel like this exercise helped reinforce… Continue reading Hormonal Control Flow Chart

When I initially saw the example posted on the course site, I found it to be pretty chaotic and, frankly, difficult to follow. As someone who prefers some structure in his notes (I’m not the type to quickly jot something down in the margins), I decided that I would order different components of my notesContinue reading “An Excuse To Doodle In Class?”

I managed to transform the formal notes that I took during the Econ class into such cute version. Basically the only two things I did were: 1. to add a stickman to each graph, acting as if he is playing the children’s slides; 2. change goods X1 and X2 to my favorite fries and ice-cream.Continue reading “Tiny Stickman Adds More Energy”

Usually, I take notes with visuals and text combined. For my high school AP Biology class, I drew the structure of the cell and neuron to help me memorize all these concepts. Right now, I draw the graphs of functions to facilitate me to understand the computation of integral in my Multivariable Calculus notes. GraphsContinue reading “Visualizing Probability”

As a computer science major, most of my classes involve numbers and precise syntactic vocabulary that do not translate to images particularly well. For example, my computer architecture class for the last three classes has been purely about converting between number systems (e.g. binary, hexadecimal, 2’s complement, IEEE 754), and 0’s and 1’s don’t translateContinue reading “Data Drawing”

Visual Note Taking I’m sorry, this is painful. I feel like I just draw a advertising flyer for our mental support helpline instead of a note. My note-taking is normally super structural — bullet points, arrows, plus occasional table structures using the same App Notability (if possible). Did it help you to understand the course … Continue reading Doodle for learning?

I have used visual notes as my study guides in the past but they were all limited to STEM courses. For this sketch assignment, I tried creating visual notes for Spanish, a language/humanities course, to compare how the process and result may or may not be different from before. The first thing I noticed wasContinue reading “A Non-Artist’s Attempts at Visual Note-Taking”

I chose to create visual notes from a day in my neuroscience class on the evolution of humankind. After translating my written notes into visual notes, it helped me understand the flow and sequence of information better. Because the lecture was based on how the homo genus and we, homo sapiens, were formed, it greatlyContinue reading “Visualizing the Homo Genus”

The visual note is an excellent way to turn boring and abstract concepts into a more engaging and interesting form. While creating the visual note, I realize how hard it is to show the knowledge point clearly. Creating the visual note helped me better memorize the relativity law as I can imagine what is happening.Continue reading “A Visual Note of Pyhsics”