Archive - Note Taking Traditions

Knowledge management practices on romantic display in George Eliot’s Middlemarch

Given that George Eliot had her own commonplace book, it’s fascinating but not surprising to see a section of prose about note taking and indexing…

Apr 10, 2024 •

February 2024

Steelcase 8 Drawer Steel Card Index Filing Cabinet for 4 x 6 inch cards

Moving up to a bigger box

Feb 22, 2024 •

Book Club on Cataloging the World and Index, A History of the

Some intellectual history for improving your current note taking practice?

Feb 11, 2024 •

Library Card Catalog Card Generator

Surfing around with respect to library card catalogs, I ran across John Blyberg‘s Library Card Generator this afternoon.

Feb 5, 2024 •

December 2023

Chris Rock’s zettelkasten output process

In the documentary Kevin Hart & Chris Rock: Headliners Only (Netflix, 2023) while preparing for a portion of their tour, Kevin Hart admires a portion of…

Dec 28, 2023 •

November 2023

Library charging trays for vertically oriented 3 x 5″ index cards

A unique box option for your zettelkasten or card index-based productivity system

Nov 30, 2023 •

October 2023

Index Card Cases, Wallets, Covers, Pouches, etc.

Note taking on the go? Here are some solutions for holding your index cards together until you can file them away in your zettelkasten.

Oct 23, 2023 •

Anne Frank’s Zettelkasten 🗃️

Slipped in between paragraphs about being worried that her family's hiding place will be discovered by a new building owner and worrying about the…

Oct 10, 2023 •

September 2023

Scaffolding “Secret” Knowledge: An analogy for teachers of thinkers, creators, readers, and writers

There’s something incredibly important to learn in studying two very similar photographs of Mortimer J.

Sep 27, 2023 •

A One Paragraph Summary of Ahrens' How to Take Smart notes from 1775-76

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's note taking description is very close to modern excerpting and zettelkasten practices.

Sep 24, 2023 •

Market analysis of library card catalogs in 2023

Advice for those looking for 3x5" index card note storage

Sep 17, 2023 •

Shaw-Walker Two Drawer Quarter Sawn Wooden Card Index File for 4 x 6" Cards

A new zettelkasten box for the office

Sep 14, 2023 •

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