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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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Re: [Journal and AMA] The English translation is coming to an end!
How does your book differentiate from Antinet Zettelkasten?> @Sascha said: Is there any difference between writing on notecards vs typing notes in Obsidian? -
Re: [Journal and AMA] The English translation is coming to an end!
Scott Scheper justifies Luhmann's specific architecture and workflow and seems to use most of the pages to justify the paper Zettelkasten. I focus more on principles of knowledge work and how to adhere to them using the Zettelkasten as a platform. ================================= The fight with Mellel has begun. -
Re: How do you use Fleeting & Reference notes in the Archive? [Doto's A System for Writing]
The general principle here is to store information about a note's status inside the note. Luhmann's numbers imply a connection to a previous note. By assigning an ID, he created a permanent connection. The power of Folgezettel. :-) -
Re: How do you use Fleeting & Reference notes in the Archive? [Doto's A System for Writing]
Yes: Ahrens’s workflow. That distinction was already explicit in the article, which has separate sections for “Niklas Luhmann’s workflow” and “Ahrens’s workflow”; the claim about fleeting notes appears in the latter. -
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…