Smart notes differ from a conventional note-taking form by displaying several key properties:
They distill ideas into the author's own voice
They are integrated into the author's own thoughts
Incoming notes can be sourced from one of two locations:
From the ether. Capture these as fleeting notes to be processed later.
From literature. How to take notes from literature
This process results in an emergence of evergreen notes - where An evergreen note is a unit of knowledge. Achieving this comes from note taking representing thoughts (Take thoughtful notes) which are then extracted and networked into a web of other ideas. In this regard, the act of Writing is thinking - creating an environment that will Allow ideas to emerge
Use a Map of Content to structure notes and give a workspace to flesh out a topic, or idea.