This idea of "zettelkasten" is very interesting. I did a quick search [1]. Niklas Luhman will be perhaps more well know to the German speakers, i find this facinating, especially the bit about his zettelkasten being a collaborator
"One of the things that made his Zettelkasten or slip box (or note card file) so intriguing to the larger (German) public was a 1981 paper, entitled "Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen. Ein Erfahrungsbericht" (Communication with Index Card Systems. An Empirical Account. It appeared in Niklas Luhmann, Universität als Milieu. Kleine Schriften. hrsg. von André Kieserling. Bielefeld: Verlag Cordula Haux, 1992.) Luhmann claimed that his file was something of a collaborator in his work, a largely independent partner in his research and writing. It might have started out as a mere apprentice when Luhmann was still studying himself (in 1951), but after thirty years of having been fed information by the human collaborator it had acquired the ability of surprising him again an again. Since the ability of genuinely surprising one another is an essential characteristic of genuine communication, he argued that there was actually communication going on between himself and his partner in theory." Alex http://takingnotenow.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/luhmanns-zettelkasten.html On 29 November 2014 at 01:46, Terri McLaughlin <[email protected]> wrote: > 1 - I was looking for a digital "zettelkasten"... a way of working with > lots of small interconnected notes. Although it seems very simple, other > programs I tried seemed to involve some big compromise. OneNote and > Evernote links are unidirectional... other wikis are visually > distracting... Springpad's servers went offline... and so on. I found TW5 a > few weeks ago and found it ideal for this purpose (among others of course!) > > 2 - Nothing has frustrated me so far. I'm not a programmer but I enjoy > poking at things to see how they work (seems like a common thread amongst > users.) I would have benefited from the documentation being separated into > "the bare essentials you need to get started" vs. "the crazy number of > other things you can potentially do with it". Looking back, the basic use > of TW seemed more complicated than it actually is, simply because I was > tempted to click in every direction at once, haha. > > 3 - I can pour my brain into TW without worrying about losing things or > being limited in the future - this is the major appeal. But it is very > "sticky" for reasons others have mentioned: the community seems to be able > to find 3 different ways of solving any challenge... your data resides with > you... it's very portable. In general TW is a great idea and well developed > - many thanks to everyone here who played a role in that! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
