Bob Doto

MY BOOK

• A System for Writing: How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas, Think Wildly, and Write Constantly—A Zettelkasten Primer

ZETTELKASTEN BASICS

• What is a Fleeting Note?

• What is a Literature Note?

• What is a Permanent Note?

• The Difference Between Hub Notes and Structure Notes Explained

ZETTELKASTEN PRACTICES

• Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes

• How a Collaborative Zettelkasten Might Work: A Modest Proposal for a New Kind of Collective Creativity

• What Do We Mean When We Say 'Bottom-Up'?

• Inspired Destruction: How a Zettelkasten Explodes Thoughts (So You Can Have New Ones)

• Keeping the Zettelkasten in Mind When Creating New Notes

• Using Diaries and Journals as Source Material for Zettelkasten Notes

• How to Handle Facts in Your Zettelkasten

• Don't Ditch Your Old Notes: An Argument for Holding onto Abandoned Ideas

• I just finished reading a book and took lots of notes. Now what?

• Linking New Notes & Fearing Lost Ones

• Hidden Relevance: Where Seemingly Dissonant Ideas Meet

WRITING WITH A ZETTELKASTEN

• A System for Writing: How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas, Think Wildly, and Write Constantly— A Zettelkasten Primer

• How I Start a Book Project Using a Zettelkasten

ZETTELKASTEN THEORY

• Understanding the Zettelkasten as an "Asymmetric" Communication Partner

• Serendipity and the Zettelkasten

• Reading Ideas as Information

DEMOS

• How I Use My Zettelkasten (in Obsidian) to Writes Essays (video)

FOLGEZETTEL

• Folgezettel Will Not Necessarily Create Discrete Topical Sections in Your Zettelkasten

• How to Use Folgezettel in Your Zettelkasten: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

• Folgezettel is Not an Outline: Luhmann's Playful Appreciation of (Dys)function

• Folgezettel is More than Mechanism

COMPARISONS

• Zettelkasten, Linking Your Thinking, and Nick Milo's Search for Ground

• Misconceptions About the Relationship Between Permanent & Evergreen Notes

• How Progressive Summarization and Zettelkasten Get Along

• Tensions Between Zettelkasten and the Productivity Scene

Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Resources

LUHMANN ON ZETTELKASTEN

• Technique of the card index (1968) Ms. 2906

• Communicating with Slip Boxes (Luhmann's only essay on zettelkasten)

• Luhmann's Notes on Zettelkasten (ZK 2; begins at 9/8)

• Biographie, Attitüden, Zettelkasten (German interview)

• Interview w/ Niklas Luhmann by Wolfgang Hagen (pdf; German; starts p 15)

• Luhmann showing how his zettelkasten works (video)

SCHMIDT ON ZETTELKASTEN

• Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: Thinking Tool, Communication Partner, Publication Machine (pdf)

• Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: The Fabrication of Serendipity (pdf; condensed version of above)

• The Issue of the Constitution in Luhmann’s Card Index System. Reading the Traces

• The Zettelkasten as the second brain of Niklas Luhmann (Google Doc)

KIESERLING ON ZETTELKASTEN

• Interview: The card index as a closed book

• André Kieserling on Niklas Luhmann and the Taming of Chance (German, begins p. 38)

• Zettels Raum (German interview, pdf) (scrubbed from web, looking for replacement link)

CEVOLINI ON ZETTELKASTEN

• Where Does Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index Come From? (pdf)

• Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (chapter, begins p. 26)

AHRENS ON ZETTELKASTEN

• How to Take Smart Notes Presentation (video)

THE ZK COMMUNITY ON ZETTELKASTEN

• Morgan on Zettelkasten (video)

• Writing Slowly on Zettelkasten

• Christian Tietze on Zettelkasten

• Chris Aldrich on Zettelkasten

• Sascha Fast on Zettelkasten

• Artem Kirsanov on Zettelkasten (video)

• Vicky Zhao on Zettelkasten (video)