A simple, trusted slip-box workflow that captures, rewrites, and links ideas turns open-ended research into a reliable insight engine, so drafting becomes the easy assembly of thinking already done. This approach replaces fragile upfront plans with an environment that lets new ideas determine next steps, preserves cognitive focus by externalizing complexity, and compounds learning through bottom‑up connections (Allen, 2001; Sull and Eisenhardt, 2015).