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"Zettelkasten" describes a method of personal knowledge management inspired by prolific sociologist Niklas Luhmann.

  • Luhmann's zettelkasten
  • Purpose of zettelkasten
  • Different kinds of zettelkasten notes
  • Permanent notes are permanently useful, not permanently unchanging
  • Build randomness into knowledge generation systems
  • Learning is enhanced by surprise
  • Writing with a zettelkasten

Related

  • Garbage in, garbage out.
  • Ideas are constellations
  • Design environments to facilitate behaviours

Citations

Ahrens, Sönke. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers. Sönke Ahrens, 2017.


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