I used Nano Banana 2 to make perfect sketchnotes: 5 lessons learned (and how I broke Gemini)

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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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