Lori Silverstein shared a post from Quickplay that featured a comic explainer, mentioning that “this could be a very impactful way for us to start being more creative … and differentiate our value proposition.” True. Comic explainers convey both creativity and differentiation. I’ve used sketchnotes for the same effect, but comic explainers are easier to follow than sketchnotes. So I fed this image to ChatGPT and asked it to modify my Sketchnote prompt: ...
I use this prompt to generate sketchnotes on Gemini: Draw this as a visually rich, intricately detailed, colorful, and funny, sketchnote. Below that, I paste (or attach) whatever content I want it to draw. I also turn on “Create Images” and switch the model to “Pro” (for better thinking.) Here are some examples of how to use it. Summarize articles. Pick email, report, news, or website. Here’s a sketchnote for this article: How to use AI for research. I used the prompt above and pasted the article text. ...
I joined Madhu Sathiaseelan’s podcast to talk about LLM Psychology. But it’s also fascinating to see how much SECONDARY content you can generate from a video. Do you prefer sketch-notes? See Nano Banana Pro’s version below. Or are you a slides person? https://sanand0.github.io/talks/2025-11-06-llm-psychology/ How about a Malcolm Gladwell article? https://github.com/sanand0/talks/raw/refs/heads/main/2025-11-06-llm-psychology/mind-readers.docx Or reading the raw transcript? https://github.com/sanand0/talks/tree/main/2025-11-06-llm-psychology The way in which we consume information is entirely up to us. This is making a lot more content (e.g. research papers, government regulations, medical reports, policy documents, product manuals, …) accessible to me - just by asking it to rewrite it as a sketch-note, slides, article, or anything I prefer. ...