The end boss of writing a lot (imo) has got to be Leonhard Euler[1]. Died in 1783, published over 500 papers, books articles etc in his lifetime across a very broad range of topics in maths and the sciences.
There has been a project[2] to publish the rest of his complete works and it is still not done even though it has been going for over a hundred years and has published more than 80 volumes so far.
There's an incredible quote from his wiki page:
It has been estimated that Leonard Euler was the author of a quarter of the combined output in mathematics, physics, mechanics, astronomy, and navigation in the 18th century.
The creator of the Zettelkasten system Niklas Luhmann[1] wrote an impressive amount of papers and books due to his organizational system. I am roughly recalling over 400+ papers and over 60+ books. From my understanding of his system, it allowed him to create 'meta tiers' of his information in a similar but even more advanced way than web hyperlinking. This allowed him to quickly compile related texts and contexts with high efficiency.
Zettelkasten seems like a good method for regurgitating snippets of things you’ve already written. Euler was creating those things as he went. I’m not convinced Zettelkasten would have been helpful in his use case.
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The end boss of writing a lot (imo) has got to be Leonhard Euler[1]. Died in 1783, published over 500 papers, books articles etc in his lifetime across a very broad range of topics in maths and the sciences.
There has been a project[2] to publish the rest of his complete works and it is still not done even though it has been going for over a hundred years and has published more than 80 volumes so far.
There's an incredible quote from his wiki page:
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler2: The Opera Omnia https://bernoulli-euler-gesellschaft.ch/en/opera_omnia
The creator of the Zettelkasten system Niklas Luhmann[1] wrote an impressive amount of papers and books due to his organizational system. I am roughly recalling over 400+ papers and over 60+ books. From my understanding of his system, it allowed him to create 'meta tiers' of his information in a similar but even more advanced way than web hyperlinking. This allowed him to quickly compile related texts and contexts with high efficiency.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten
Zettelkasten seems like a good method for regurgitating snippets of things you’ve already written. Euler was creating those things as he went. I’m not convinced Zettelkasten would have been helpful in his use case.