Ok zettelkasten fans. Unless someone can come up with an earlier source, the inventor of the zettelkasten method for excerpting and note taking is Konrad Gessner in 1548. (Again it’s not Niklas Luhmann!) Source: | Chris Aldrich
Category: Commonplace Books
Extending the Mind – Finite Eyes
Valorize motion, not sitting still. Source: Extending the Mind – Finite Eyes
The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral | Hapgood
A stunning thing that we forget, but the link here is not part of the author’s intent, but of the reader’s analysis. Source: The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral | Hapgood
As We May Think – The Atlantic
Vannevar Bush’s influential essay about the memex Source: As We May Think – The Atlantic
Platforms/tools for commonplace books
I’ve seen some people building digital commonplace books in real time, but I’m also curious to see more academics doing it and seeing what tools and platforms they’re using to do it. Source: Chris Aldrich
Commonplace books
Historically commonplace books are one of the oldest and most influential structures in the note taking, writing, and thinking space. They have generally been physical books written by hand that contain notes which are categorized by headings (or in a modern context categories or tags. Source: Differentiating online variations of the Commonplace Book: Digital Gardens, […]