- We sort each TOPIC's notes into smaller SUBTOPICS.
- On our Topic Outline, FORM 5, each TOPIC can have 2 or more SUBTOPICS, beginning with A and B.
- We begin with our TOPIC I.
- We hold the first note next to the second note, and we ask, “Related or unrelated?”
- When notes are related, we put them together and name them on their SUBTOPIC lines.
- We can have no SUBTOPICS, or we can have 2 or more SUBTOPICS.
- A SUBTOPIC can have one or more notes.
- We arrange our SUBTOPICS in a sensible order, and we write them on ABC lines of our Topic Outline, FORM 5.