The main criteria for writing notes should be relevance and diversity

Focusing on relevance when creating new notes helps avoid confirmation bias. In the Circular process of writing, ideas are developed bottom-up instead of decising on a hypothesis or a topic first. There's no topic/hypothesis yet when you write new notes – there's nothing yet to confirm! And therefore, the main criterion should be relevance.

And adding diverse notes—including dis-confirming, contradicting ideas—enriches your zettelkasten. It enables to create more connections in it. More ideas can emerge from it.

The resulting writing is also more interesting because it comes from a discussion of pros and cons rather than piling up confirming ideas.