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Ink Map: Notes as a Workspace for Thinking

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Ink Map is a note-taking guide for people who don’t need more information—they need a page that helps them think.

Most notes become long transcripts, messy highlights, scattered to-dos. Later, you can’t find what matters, and you can’t turn your notes into decisions, memory, or finished work. Ink Map reframes notes as an interface—a workspace you design to reduce friction, capture signal, and guide action.

Inside, you’ll build a lightweight system you can use in real fast lectures, dense reading, chaotic meetings, and problem-solving sessions where your brain wants to stall. You’ll learn how to create structure quickly, mark meaning with a small symbol language, layer clarity in short passes, and connect pages so you can retrieve what you need without rereading everything.

This book is built for imperfect days. It doesn’t demand perfect handwriting, fancy tools, or hours of rewriting. It gives you templates, rhythms, and reset moves that keep your notebook usable—even when life gets loud.

In Ink Map, you’ll learn how

Design a default page structure you can reuse under pressure

Capture signal instead of scribbling everything

Use margins as control panels for cues, actions, and questions

Build a simple symbol key that replaces long explanations

Turn Cornell into a flexible review engine

Use outlines, mind maps, and sketch-notes without making a mess

Take meeting notes that produce decisions, owners, and deadlines

Keep up in fast lectures with compression and structured blanks

Read with claims, evidence, questions, and use cases

Build problem-solving pages that track reasoning and verification

Create personal templates, maintenance rituals, and reset pages

Thread your notebook for fast retrieval—and harvest notes into output

If your notes feel heavy, scattered, or useless later, Ink Map gives you a calm, practical way to turn pages into clarity—and clarity into action.

187 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 8, 2026

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Janet McHugh

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