7 incredibly valuable use cases for visual note-taking tools

The capabilities of these tools align perfectly with the needs of creators. Here’s how!

Visual note-taking tools like Scrintal, Napkin and xTiles offer powerful brain-enhancing features that make them especially attractive to creators who are looking for something more to nurture their ideas.

By arraying your notes, ideas and collected content on a whiteboard-like canvas, visual note-taking tools open up a world of creative possibilities that text-based note-taking tools can’t equal.

But what can you actually DO with them? Here are seven applications that visual note-taking tools empower:

1. Outlining/writing/content creation

Content of any kind — a blog post, a video, infographic or ebook — is a combination of ideas and elements, arranged to tell a story, teach a process or inspire a feeling.

To create a cohesive piece of content, the writer needs to organize his or her thoughts. These tools provide a flexible canvas where you can do so, quickly and easily.

Arranging the “atoms” of your content visually makes it easy to see what’s missing, what needs to be clarified and what’s extraneous and can be removed.