Episode 01-04: Jisell Howe – Sketchnotes

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Welcome to episode 4 of Series 1 of the Wrenches Gadgets & Hacks Podcast.

In this episode, of the “Technology, Innovation, and Curiosity On and Off the Clock” series, Carl and guest host John have a great conversation with Jisell Howe as they learn about sketchnotes and technology behind them.

As we chatted about sketchnotes we uncover many other passions and skills Jisell uses on and off the clock.

  • DIY Websites
  • Data Storytelling
  • Coding in Python, R, Julia Language
  • Speaker Trading Cards … Carl almost didn’t let John ask about these, stay to the end to find out what its all about 😁
  • All this and more just below in the Show Notes

You can listen to the podcast, HERE, the Spotify player at the start of this post, or on your favorite podcast app. If you prefer visual content, be sure to check out the video on YouTube.

Show Notes:

Jisell’s Sketchnote from BIMThoughts E2021
  • Quatro – An open-source scientific and technical publishing system (what Jisell used to built her website)
  • RStudio – Open Source IDE for data science
  • Posit – Company who owns Quarto & Rstudio
  • Markdown – is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor.
  • Markdown Guide – is a free and open-source reference guide that explains how to use Markdown, the simple and easy-to-use markup language you can use to format virtually any document
  • iA Writer – iA Writer gives you the essence of pure writing by providing an unobtrusive interface that lets you concentrate on your text.
  • Obsidian – Note taking app
  • Notion – A tool that blends your everyday work apps into one
  • Bear – Markdown notes you’ll love (if you’re a Mac user)
  • Jupyter Notebook – The Jupyter Notebook is the original web application for creating and sharing computational documents
  • VS Code – Code editing redefined. Free. Built on open source. Runs everywhere.
  • Speaker Trading Cards – Jisell’s speaker trading card project
  • My Trading Cards – Place to get your own trading cards made

A quick note from Jisell:

While not specifically mentioned in the podcast, a fun fact is the Visual Jam Meetup once featured Heather Martinez who talked about Sketchnotes with Architectural lettering. It was fun to see that as someone with an AEC background. I learned how to letter for hand drafting many years ago. My hack of combining interests comes into play here because just about all my text for my sketchnotes use capital letters/architectural lettering.

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Also a BIG Thanks to Alex Grohl for our amazing intro and outro music “Indie Hey Song (Lost Fragments)” You can find more great royalty-free music from Alex on Pixabay

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