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Folgezettel vs. duplex-numeric arrangement
What was Luhmann's unique contribution to the world of filing systems and card indexes? Luhmann had a law degree. One of his early jobs was to develop a filing system. It is safe to assume that he was familiar with the best practices of the time. @chrisaldrich reminded us of Rand Corporation's Progressive Indexing and… -
Niklas Luhmann's Zettelkasten Method "One Pager" (1968)
The internet is now rife with what I call “zettelkasten method one pagers” that describe what many people rightly (or very often wrongly) think that Niklas Luhmann’s zettelkasten method entails. While doing some research about Luhmann’s numbering system’s antecedents, I recently came across a “one pager” (typescript)… -
Happy 98th Birthday Dr. Luhmann!
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The Reductionist Position on AI by Cal Newport
EDIT: This is what Cal Newport wrote: https://calnewport.com/when-it-comes-to-ai-think-inside-the-box/ I send this mail to Cal Newport. I thought that it might be interesting to discuss: Hi Cal, tl;dr: You are positioning yourself for failure by taking a reductionist position on AI. (Doesn’t mean that you are wrong. Just… -
Specificity of "top level" categories
I'm following Bob Doto's advice and using Luhmann's numbering scheme, which in effect imposes a tree structure on top of a more free-form linking structure. My top-level titles are weird: * 1.5: The brain is expensive. * 3.3: Republic of Letters letters were often sent multi-hop * 4.3: Russian fairy tales are constructed… -
Luhmann's random browsing
In @Sascha's nice translation of “Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen” (much thanks!), Luhmann speaks much of randomness in ways that are not clear to me. I've read somewhere that I can no longer find – bad note-taker! bad! – that Luhmann would sometimes browse the Zettelkasten with no fixed purpose, moving about it… -
Remindered: A New Term for Cognitive Architecture - And Why UIDs Enable Cognitive Breadcrumbing
I scratched out a new musing exploring of a new verb that (I think) I made up. I'm calling I it "remindered"—the architectural act of being triggered back into a cognitive context at exactly the right moment, not just reminded of a task. chrisokeefe.io/remindered We have reminders. We have remembering. But we don't have a… -
Hear my incoherent ramblings about Zettelkasten to fall asleep to #ASMR
https://youtu.be/fQryiKaNmzE?si=H9m3PZNLg_AHTySf&t=5275 Protesilaos Stavrou had me for a 2.5h 'interview' format and at the linked time of 1:27h we started to talk about Zettelkasten: * how you pronounce it * what goes inside * sidebar about Luhmann's theory, a summary made up on a whim * externalizing thought to discover… -
Zothero / Pandoc / Marked2 - different results
Hi everyone, I need your knowledge on citing with Pandoc. Basic conditions: I use The Archive with Zotero and cite with APA7. For searching I use Alfred with Zothero, also with APA7. Specifically, my problem is that citations are displayed differently, although both tools use APA7. If I use Zothero, for example, it looks… -
Re: Should You Have a Note Goal Per Day? How To Quantify Creativity to Boost Creative Performance • Zett
I'd say it depends on the purpose of your note-taking. If you're preparing for an exam, the goal is to learn a well-defined set of facts and skills before a given deadline. What kinds of notes would be useful? Math and Physics require some rote learning of definitions. For example: What is a triangle? What is the second…