What Do You Need Is a Digital Commonplace Book?

The idea of a commonplace book is from the sort of 16 17th 18th century. People used to transcribe bits out of other people's books on sheets of paper and literally stick them in a scrapbook. So now instead of taking whole articles into Evernote, I just take the bit of the article that's of interest to me - about 250 words at most. And then he says, what you need to do is this method of call progressive highlighting. He says, on the first pass, just highlight a couple of sentences that seem particularly relevant to the reason you took this note. On the second pass, come through again another time and use bolding or change the color of

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