Note Taking Traditions

Note Taking Traditions

Anne Frank’s Zettelkasten 🗃️

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Chris Aldrich
Oct 10, 2023
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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 fairness of rationing butter, Anne Frank mentions being gifted a zettelkasten to track her reading:

Father emptied a card file for Margot and me and filled it with index cards that are blank on one side. This …

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