There is something *very* much like the Zettelkasten addressing scheme in Ted Nelson's Xanadu project. Tumblers. If ZK used numbers only and not alpha, and made the scope the entire 'docuverse' ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbler_%28Project_Xanadu%29 On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 8:33:10 AM UTC-8, Thomas Passin wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 5:55:36 AM UTC-5, Marcel Franke wrote: >> >> >> >> Am Dienstag, 25. Februar 2020 02:37:13 UTC+1 schrieb Thomas Passin: >> >> Note: Luhmann was the inventer of the zettelkasten. >>> >> >> Ok, just for clarification: No he was not. Zettelkasten is a german word >> for a box (=kasten) of paperslips (=zettel). It's pretty common tool. >> People before Luhmann used them, people after Luhmann used them. Even his >> System is not really special, as most of it is just a simplified system of >> how librarys are organising books, Actually, libraries are pretty guilty in >> using Zettelkästen in very organised ways even today. >> >> Luhmann is famous because he was successful in using those in things in a >> slightly different way then other people, while being famus enough to be >> recognized for it, and stuborn enough to use them for a long time. >> > > All right; I've not seen the term "zettelkasten" applied to systems before > Luhmann's got publicised. I've been under the impression that his > particular way of indexing and linking is what characterizes the term. But > yes, the word itself is pretty general and if we stick with a generic term > we might as well just say "filing system" and be done with it. > > To me, I don't really care much about detailed differences in how > different people may have used similar systems. I *am* interested in > simplicity and usefulness, and what has worked. And even if I tried to do > things exactly as Luhmann seems to have done them, my own note collection > would turn out to be very different because - I'm sure - I conceptualize > and link things differently from the way he did. > > In a sense, Luhmann's zettelkasten was nearly the same as the World Wide > Web. He had "resources" - his cards, and "links" - his index strings. He > also used backlinks, which can be added to a web page but it's not so easy > to know how it could be done automatically, since you wouldn't want to add > the URL of just any page that had a hyperlink to your target. > > In this case, though, I'm interested in having a system that doesn't need > to use someone else's web server. I wouldn't mind using my own server on > my own machine, but if it isn't necessary, so much the better. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/5439e50a-e9df-40ca-963b-faaf5a22c060%40googlegroups.com.
