How to Take Smart Notes

Organize notes in only one place, with the same format, in that way it is easier to process them later.
On your Slip-Box the notes are divided by context not by topics
The Slip-Box becomes more valuable as more it increases its size with the number of notes.
Project Notes are notes regarding a specific project.
Collect notes from multiple sources for multiple projects and does not being stuck on only one project because the connection between notes can be limited.
Take care of transforming everything into Fleeting Notes and in that way be induced to restart everything again.
Permanent Notes are sources of knowledge because they all have enough context to be understandable.
Try to process Fleeting Notes and Literature Notes as fast as possible to because you can lose its context before passing it to Permanent Notes.
Only Permanent Notes are put in the Slip-Box.
The notes you are taking will give you a Feedback Loop about how good they are and how good you are exploring a specific topic. If you are writing something that you did not understand correctly the notes will show that you not concise about a specific topic.
When writing notes don’t be a critic, do this after the notes is already done or during the proofread.
Handwriting notes is better to learning because they need to be more assertive because we write slow Handwriting with our words.

How to take smart notes (Ahrens, 2017, p38-44)