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 Start a Folder – A folder on my desk stores handwritten ideas, articles ripped out of magazines and newspapers, printouts of articles from the Internet, brochures from conferences and just about any other ideas I find interesting. This folder lets me store things in a central and highly visible way. You might choose to create this folder digitally, or with paper. Either way, the important thing is to have a centralized place where you can save ideas for later digestion.

 Always Summarize – When you are collecting ideas on a longer time scale, it is easy to forget why it seemed significant in the first place. To help jog your own memory, get into the habit of highlighting a few sentences, or writing down a few notes about your thoughts on the idea. Later, when you are going through your gathered ideas, these notes will be useful in recalling what originally sparked your interest.

 Seek Concepts, Not Conclusions – As we learned in Chapter 2, a key habit of good curating is the ability to be fickle. In practice, this means not getting too hung up on the need to quantify or understand every idea you save in the moment. Many times, the best thing you can do is to gather something, save it, and then move on to the rest of your daily life. Perspective comes from taking time and having patience.