Source: 📖 How to Take Smart Notes ch.10

Ask yourself whether what you are reading adds to the slip-box

While reading, the slip-box forces you into a selective note-taking mode. You must be looking for things that add something of worth to the slip-box. Whether that is a new idea, a contradiction, a new connection or a new question, the only criterion is that it either connects to something or it is open to connections in the future.

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See also:

• How to make Literature Notes