Sketch Your Mind

Release Date: June 15, 2025

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What If Your Notes Looked Like This?

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 reading receipts.

Unlock Your Ideas with a Visual System That Works

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 drag of endless text?

Sketch Your Mind is your guide to thinking visually, structurally, and spatially.

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 book gives you a complete system—not just hacks or pretty diagrams—but a dynamic, reusable framework that lets sketches, maps, and notes come together to make your thinking sharper, faster, and more fun.

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 thought so you can see your ideas take shape.

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

Writers who want to break free from text overload.

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 just want a better way to think—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.

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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.