Source: 📖 How to Take Smart Notes

Understanding comes through connecting

Things that we understand are connected to our broader body of knowledge. It is very difficult to learn something new in a vacuum, it must connect to something we already know. The slip-box is about consciously building these connections in an external system where they won't be forgotten.

See also:

• The purpose of the Zettelkasten is to compensate for the limitations of our brains