Zettelkasten Forum

* Began taking notes on the chapter about Niklas Luhmann's Zettelkasten from Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe edited by Alberto Cevolini.

a) Luhmann formulated a verbal system theory in Communication with Zettelkästen

That's a very good point. Communicating with Slip Boxes: an Empirical Account by Niklas Luhmann isn't exactly a model of replicability.

Luhmann's second Zettelkasten was "divided into eleven top-level sections with a total of about 100 subsections...", whereas the first Zettelkasten was "...divided into 108

I think that the Luhmann-ID might not be what you want. What if, later on in your journey, you decide that the current top-level Folgezettel structure doesn't fit your interests? You'll have to re-ind

@GraemeWeston If I'm not mistaken, the idea wasn't so much to create an ordered sequence as if it were a table of logical contents, but to put related notes together. So in this situation if you had …

@sfast In this instance I was thinking abstractly. But, more generally, I am looking for an indexing system that would allow me structure notes linearly and insert notes at any point without having t

@ZettelDistraction Thank you, it's comforting to know I didn’t misunderstand Luhmann's ID system!

He couldn't assign an ID between 1 and 1a to another note because there isn't such an ID. The only way that Luhmann could insert a note "between" 1 and 1a would be to refer (link) t

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According to my understanding of Luhmann's ID system, he labeled his notes consecutively starting at one:

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For Luhmann, the so-called Folgezettel (numeric-alpha addresses + tree structure) benefited him by turning him into a publication machine, as Johannes Schmidt would call it. ~70 books and ~550 publish

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* That is the reason why I plan to provide my own translation of the core texts of Luhmann in some distant future.

Regarding Bunge being "Luhmann's Argentine-Canadian doppelganger" as @Will suggested above, I googled "Mario Bunge" + Zettelkasten and found what looks like a Bunge

https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/projekt/publikationen

In some ways, he sounds like Luhmann's Argentine-Canadian doppelganger. From his wiki page - "Bunge was a prolific intellectual, having written more than 400 papers and 80 books" wit