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Facsimiles of Luhmann 9/8 zettels laid out on canvas
How does the layout of zettels influence our perception of Luhmann's folgezettel structure? Here's an experiment that uses facsimiles of all zettels in branch 9/8. Note sequences are indicated by overlapping zettels. The black arrows indicate new note sequences branching off. The red arrow indicates a note sequence… -
How to download Zettels and JSON files from the Luhmann Archive
The Niklas Luhmann Archiv in Bielefeld has scanned the entire content of Niklas Luhmann's famous "Zettelkasten" (aka slip box, card index). The digital edition of the Zettelkasten is available online. You can search for zettels on the search page. If you want to download an individual zettel, click on the desired zettel in… -
On Zettelkasten Productivity
Let's start with some data from reconstructions of Luhmann's second, sociological Zettelkasten: * Permanent Notes: about 67,000 cards. * Literature Notes: about 15,000 entries (mostly books and articles). * Books he authored: a bit over 70. This means as an estimation, not a directly documented figure: * For each book or… -
Visualizing Luhmann's Folgezettel in Logseq
This is a contribution to The Great Folgezettel Debate. What exactly are those "Folgezettels", that Daniel and Sascha debate? And why do they matter? I think that we need better visualizations of Luhmann's actual zettels to answer those questions. I suggest an experiment. Explore the online edition of Niklas Luhmann's… -
Happy 98th Birthday Dr. Luhmann!
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A few questions about the folgezettel and zettelkasten
Hello, I'm a new user here. I have a few questions I'm unsure about, and I hope you can help. I've decided to use the folgezettel, which is more suitable for me. * If I have, for example, 6 notes on a given day that I want to enter into the zettelkasten as part of the folgezettel, do I insert them in random order, from… -
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)… -
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… -
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… -
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…