Note-taking systems like the [[Zettelkasten]] helps us turn the highlights and takeaways from our books and other structured forms of content into paraphrased, personally unique, and connected ideas. [[Think in ideas, not documents]] allows us to [[Compound knowledge with conceptual notes]] This can be seen in the Zettelkasten process through: - [[Literature notes]] are the direct highlights and takeaways we extract (external thoughts) - [[Conceptual notes|Permanent notes]] are the ideas in our own words (personal understanding but still not an original thought) - When you paraphrase you show you understand something in your own words, but you're still not creating new - Instead of paraphrasing what is said in highlights, I treat the highlights as bricks and my own personal thoughts and understanding as the glue that holds them together to create something new. - [[Making connections between notes]] (based off of our unique existing knowledge and [[Relevance realization]] of the world) ## How [[My Inputs Workflow]]