The Key to My Creativity Is This Weird Note-Taking System

Using Niklas Luhmann’s ‘slip box’ method, I’m finding better ideas everywhere

Herbert Lui
Forge
Published in
4 min readFeb 28, 2020

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A filing cabinet with an open drawer with many index cards inside.
Photo: Maksym Kaharlytskyi/Unsplash

I’I’ve always been an avid notetaker—extracting ideas from books as inspiration for my articles. But most of my notes were disorganized, housed digitally in Pocket, Evernote, Google Docs, Trello, or on stacks of index cards. Accessing the…

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Herbert Lui
Forge
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Covering the psychology of creative work for content creators, professionals, hobbyists, and independents. Author of Creative Doing: https://www.holloway.com/cd