Am Montag, 24. Februar 2020 20:28:05 UTC+1 schrieb andyjim:
 

> I'm still wondering exactly how Luhmann's indexing played out.  
>

 He used manual maintained index-cards of keywords. Just big lists of 
keywords with reference-numbers which he used a startingpoint to dig into a 
topic. You can look it up in the Luhmann-Archive, where they scanned his 
whole papers & boxes and work now on digitizing the text.

With 90k zettels it must have been efficient and effective indeed, for him 
> to use the system so productively. 
>

 You overhype Luhmann. That guy was famous because he was maintaining his 
system decades before personal computers and modern organisation-methods 
were a thing. By todays standard his system is not so special. It's 
basically just a web-forum on paper.

Seems like there's a whole layer (maybe more than one layer) of his system 
> that we don't know enough about.  It seems like we might need to innovate 
> something here.
>
 
That Layer is Luhmann himself. He didn't bother with system and details, 
but found something that worked for him and invested most of his life on 
filling it. There is no big secret behind his knowledgebase, it's just 
stupid manual labor over a long period of time. For most people this does 
not work, becuase they are busy with optimizing every single detail, 
building big complex buildings which they can't maintain anymore at some 
point, instead of just doing the simple things they original aimed for.

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