Source: 📖 How to Take Smart Notes ch.12

Ideas must first be abstracted before being combined

In order to have one idea interacting with another, we must first make abstractions of these ideas by lifting them from their frames and contexts. This is what we do when we make permanent notes—we get to the root of an idea; its very essence rather than an instance of it.

See also:

• See through the context of the original text
• Ideas can exist in different contexts