> The doodles are typically topical...visuals of what's being said in the room Same - I'm an INSANELY visual person and I draw tons of flowcharts, tables, char

> The doodles are typically topical...visuals of what's being said in the room Same - I'm an INSANELY visual person and I draw tons of flowcharts, tables, charts, etc. to represent notes vs. how other people go about it. I usually end up with 25-35% of my notes being visual. It's the same as someone bouncing their leg or needing to move while learning, our brains work in different ways and I've learned to "go along for the ride" and utilize it vs. fighting it. I have found however that in highly corporate environments it is very unwelcome. I've also had a problem with very detailed note taking (ie: writing down/typing what someone said verbatim). People can get unhappy if you can recite the entirety of a meeting back to them from 3-4 pages of your Moleskine notebook complete with diagrams of the whiteboards. For me it's about collecting a solid/defensible spec as an engineer, for them it's unwelcome managerial accountability.