Summarizing Podcasts
I often listen to podcasts while I'm out walking. Sometimes I'll want to remember the main points and jot down notes when I get back home. Occasionally these will turn into a full #biblequiltjournal page.
I'm part of a small women's group that listens to podcasts, then meets to discuss them together. I find that it's helpful to summarize these podcasts on a BQ page.
Reviewing these colorful notes before our accountability group meeting helps freshen my perspective and provides me with a tangible way to compare/contrast podcast topics.
As shown in the photos, these are freestyle pages that I've used my Happy Planner punch to add into my small group notebook. I'm simply using Avery tabs with titles printed from my label maker. Throughout the year as we cover a variety of topics, I can move the pages around to categorize them. For now I'm just inserting them in…
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I've been thinking as I read through these that this method could be great for any type of notes -- not necessarily just spiritual things. I'm SO not artsy; I think in words, not pictures. So when I was reading something about Mind Mapping a number of years ago, they said it's important to use colors and images when mapping because it helps with recall...but I tried it, and I found that if I gave myself five minutes to Mind Map whatever my topic was at the time (I forget now what it was), I got one thing on the page -- and I froze up and spent the entire rest of the time trying to figure out what to draw. 😂 If I gave myself another five minutes and just wrote words, I ended up with a whole pageful. One of the amazing things about your method is that it lets you start by just doing the writing, in as linear a fashion as necessary, keeping the decorating a separate step. That means you get to add all the color and embellishments that add that visual-recall aspect (and also make it just plain pretty!) but aren't bogged down trying to do it from the beginning. It's kind of like not trying to write and edit all in one pass.