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BY Justin Pot

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Do you remember, as a kid, going through a stack of old magazines and clipping out the sections that you liked? There was an art to it.

Whether you were in class or just making some decorations for your wall at home, it was important to find clips that expressed your personality—pictures you thought were interesting or cool or that in some way said something about you. And it was fun to find sentences to put out of context, or even to cut out individual letters to create your own custom messages.

But, much as some of us around here may still love them, physical magazines aren’t as omnipresent as they used to be. So how can you recreate that feeling today—and find new ways it can be useful or even just plain enjoyable in your adult life?

This tip originally appeared in the free Cool Tools newsletter from The Intelligence .…