October 09, 2019 Not a great word, is it? Neither is its most typical English translation: “slip-box.” In German, a “Zettelkasten” (plural Zettelkästen) is a box for holding index cards. Despite the sound of the word, I’m finding it a surprisingly good tool for tracking information and thinking. Some brief googling, at least if your German is as bad as mine, will make it sound like a system of note-taking, with heavy linking between notes. My first thought (like many other people’s) was: Hang...

October 09, 2019 Not a great word, is it? Neither is its most typical English translation: “slip-box.” In German, a “Zettelkasten” (plural Zettelkästen) is a box for holding index cards. Despite the sound of the word, I’m finding it a surprisingly good tool for tracking information and thinking. Some brief googling, at least if your German is as bad as mine, will make it sound like a system of note-taking, with heavy linking between notes. My first thought (like many other people’s) was: Hang...