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 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.