Source: 📖 How to Take Smart Notes ch.13

All our good ideas are contained in the slip-box

Since we've been writing alongside reading, all our good ideas will be contained in the slip box. This means that it's easy to pick a topic to write about, because we'll be able to see where clusters of notes have built up. It is much better to come up with good ideas to write about this way—over the course of reading for several months—than it is to come up with good ideas by trying to brainstorm.

See also:

• Brainstorming is for those that don't write as they read
• Writing from the slip-box is about turning connections into linear text