Zettelkasten

#Note taking

Zettelkasten is a note-taking and knowledge management framework.

Perhaps the most famous Zettelkasten user is Niklas Luhmann who is a world-famous sociologist known not only for his work as a scientist but also for being extremely productive.

He has managed to write more than 70 books and 500 scientific articles for his life. In his productivity, he blamed zettelkasten (slip-box in German) which was his personal offline Wikipedia written on paper cards.

He is considered to be the pioneer of using card indexes for personal purposes.

I would suggest three main concepts behind Zettelkasten that allow it to be maintainable and serve its purpose:

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