Active Ideation

Progressive Summarization is: “Collect, Collect more, Bold, Bold, Bold, Collect, Collect more, Highlight the bolds, Highlight the Highlights, Collect, Collect, Summarize a tiny bit, Rewrite an even tinier bit. Collect more.”

Active Ideation is:

Highlight/Comment/Relate
Create/Connect/Create

For the sake of the quality of your thinking, the difference is night and day. (This is not a new concept, it’s just my take on the a process heavily inspired by the Zettelkasten method.)

As you read, you’re actively engaged. You make highlights and comments as you go — and you’re not afraid to think in the back of your mind: “How does this relate?”
Later, with an equally engaged mind, you create new notes from the highlights and comments, or you connect an idea with an already existing note — and you continue to create all sorts of dynamically related and growing ideas.

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