Compilation of Public Zettelkastens/External Brains
Prompted by @Nick 's comment in the other thread I started, I thought it would be interesting to start a thread here compiling examples of public Zettelkasten's or similar collections of people's personal knowledge. These can serve as inspiration for developing our own systems, and maybe we can glean some principles.
Andy Matuschak's Notes: An impressive collection of non-linear notes
Cosma Shalizi's Notebooks. A long-running collection of well-developed thoughts on a wide range of topics.
Some other's I've come across
https://jeremynixon.github.io/
http://memex.cc/
https://www.srid.ca/
Please share examples of public ZK's/Wikis/External Brains that you've come across, and also what you like about each collection and what stands out to you.
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Some systems I've encountered:
From the developer of org-roam: https://braindump.jethro.dev/
Nice! Andy Matuschak's notes really set off a movement for people to create these so-called "digitial gardens"
Here is another
https://www.mentalnodes.com/
Maybe Derek Sivers' book notes of the past 10+ years count: https://sivers.org/book
Not organized/connected, but rigorously maintained.
Author at Zettelkasten.de • https://christiantietze.de/
@ctietze yes, pretty awesome set of notes he has on there!!!
My wiki, https://philosopher.life/, is a deceptively large rabbithole. It's ~30MB of plaintext in ~12k textfiles.
My friends https://sphygm.us/ and https://wiki.waifu.haus/ (though this one is temporarily private) have well-designed, rich wikis. Both have gone somewhat underground in the past couple of months.
Your first link is dead. I found it somewhere else though: https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/building-your-own-memex
:wq
Link resurrected -- kudos to the Internet Archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20170723055154/https://www.gradhacker.org/2012/10/10/building-your-own-memex/
Author at Zettelkasten.de • https://christiantietze.de/
Here's a curated list of many public Zettelkastens/Digital Gardens: https://github.com/KasperZutterman/Second-Brain
And a smaller list with additional information on tools used and note themes: https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners#digital-garden-directory
Here' another public collection of notes.
The author has a peculiar way of treating zettel IDs and time stamps, and I've found more than one violation of the principle of atomicity. On the other hand, I find the use of markdown language quite inspiring.
codex-atlanticus.it
(Something tells me that I will regret this comment. I hope that some dissent with ZK orthodoxy is OK.)
Haha. What a douche. No wonder, he didn't actually produce anything. Mate should've read Luhmann's article and worship the true an only god of slips.
I am a Zettler
@thomasteepe
Haha! Great example.