David Gewirtz/Gemini Nano Banana 2/ZDNET
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AI sketchnotes look great until the text starts breaking.
Nano Banana 2 often mixes numbers, symbols, and nonsense words.
With patience, you can still generate useful visual summaries.
There is a small, slightly sad discussion on Reddit from four years ago about what to call someone who loves graphs and charts. Book lovers are called bibliophiles; they reason, shouldn't charts and graphs fans have a name, too? Redditors proposed several neologisms (new, made-up words), including cartographile, diagraphophile, visophile, graphophile, and infographophile.
All these terms apply to me. On election nights, I constantly switch between all the major networks, not even to see the results, but to catch a glimpse of their new charting styles. I love me some charts.
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One type of diagram I particularly love is called sketchnoting. A sketchnote is exactly what it sounds like: a mixture of sketches and notes to impart information. I love this style because it's both informal (the sketching and hand-written notes) and very formal (it carefully represents data). I get excited just thinking about it.
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