This post is a continuation of the post - Outline Using notes to connect. Taking notes is a method of involvement in reading and learning that is fascinating is proving fruitful.

"[Atomized notes] create a way to string fragments together into something larger. [1]

Make your notes fragments of ideas, atomize the ideas so the parts/atoms/fragments will be drawn to and interconnect with seemingly unrelated ideas. Make your notes proxies for ideas, for our interactions with knowledge. When making notes encapsulate in your words the ideas encountered. Figuratively talk back to the author, it helps to see the gaps in fascinating understanding.

The magic step in this process is the atomization of the ideas. Atomicity fosters connectivity both broad and deep to expose meaning pointing to knowledge.[2]

First you de-contextualize knowledge to individual elements, then you re-contextualize them into new threads of interconnected knowledge. Sounds mystical but it ain't. It just takes practice.

[1]: Mark Baker (2013): Every page is page one : topic-based writing for technical communication and the web, Laguna Hills, California: XML Press
[2]: Sascha (www.zettelkasten.de)