Sketch Your Mind

Release Date: June 15, 2025

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Sketch Your Mind is about visual Personal Knowledge Management.
It's the book I wish existed when I started my own PKM journey.

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Show Your Brain What You Mean

Take a look at this shop receipt.

What are they selling in this store?
Would you want to shop here?
Do they have what you need?

Now take a look at this photo of the shop window. Ask yourself the same questions.

What's the difference?

The shop window gives you an instant understanding of what's inside: fresh oranges, jars of preserves, rows of bottled juices, and bundles of leafy greens. The receipt breaks everything down into dry, linear data.

Text is like the receipt. Visuals are like the shop window.

We spend most of our time creating and reading receipts.

Build a Visual Thinking System You Can Trust

What if your notes could do more than just sit there? What if they could spark creativity, reveal connections, and grow with you—without the chaos of scattered sketches or the weight of endless text?

Sketch Your Mind is your guide to visual thinking—not just to draw ideas, but to structure, store, and connect them in a way that makes knowledge easy to find and use.

For too long, we've crammed our thinking into bullet points and walls of words. But your brain doesn't work that way. It thrives on patterns, loops, and space.

This isn’t just another book about sketching notes—it’s a complete visual system for thinking clearly, capturing insights, and building a connected knowledge base that actually works. No hacks, no fluff—just a dynamic, reusable framework that turns your ideas into playful, powerful tools.

Think in Space, Not Just Lines

"Ambidextrous thinking" means combining words and visuals—using sketches to spark clarity, text to ground ideas, and feedback loops to refine them. This isn't about artistic skill. It's about structuring your thoughts so they become visible, tangible, and useful.

What You'll Learn

• Use visuals—zero drawing skills required—to make ideas pop into focus instantly.
• Build reusable mind maps, idea boards, and concept visuals to organize thoughts.
• Turn sketches into a connected web of knowledge you can actually navigate.
• Blend text and visuals so your notes tell a story—zoomed in and zoomed out.
• Learn the brain science behind spatial thinking (without the nerdy overload).

Created by a Visual Thinker Who Builds Tools

Zsolt Viczián is an engineer, creator of Obsidian-Excalidraw, and host of Zsolt's Visual PKM YouTube channel. After 25+ years of tinkering, teaching, and tool-building, he created a system that actually works—because it's how your brain wants to think.

Who It's For

Note-takers who rely on text but want to think more visually, and intuitively.

Sketchers who want their visuals to live and connect.

Thinkers who want clarity, not more content.

Everyone who's ever said, "I can't draw." (You can.)

Ready to See the Big Picture?

Whether you're learning something new, planning a big project, or trying to untangle complex ideas—this book gives you a playful, practical system to make your ideas tangible.

Sketch Your Mind.
Your notes—and your thinking—will never be the same.

Visual thinking isn't a luxury—it's a skill you already have. This book helps you reclaim it.

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About the Author

Zsolt Viczián is the creator of Excalidraw for Obsidian, a pioneer in visual PKM, and the founder of the Visual PKM YouTube Channel.

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