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Zettelkasten

A Zettelkasten (German: 'slipbox', plural Zettelkästen) or card file consists of small items of information stored on Zetteln (German: 'slips'; singular: Zettel), paper slips or cards, that may be linked to each other through subject headings or other metadata such as numbers and tags. It has often been used as a system of note-taking and personal…

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Card catalogCommonplace bookConrad GessnerVincent PlacciusPolymath
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Penguin IslandNobel laureateAnatole FranceRobert M. PirsigJonathan Swift
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GermanSubject headingsMetadataTagsNote-taking
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Zettelkasten

Nodes84
Edges83
Triples85
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02381
Components1

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related to 20th century · 51
Zettelkasten → All Faculties, American History, Antonin Sertillanges, Beatrice Webb's Methods, Carter Alexander's How, Cecil, Chapter, Chauncey Sanders's An Introduction, Data, Dow's Principles, Earle, English, English Literary History, English-language, For, French, German-language, Gottschalk's Understanding History, Graff's The Modern Researcher, Guide
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Zettelkasten → An Inquiry, Anatole France, Arno Schmidt, Drawn, Fifteen Boxes, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German, Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Heinrich Heine, In, In Paper Machines, Jean Paul, Jean Paul's, Jonathan Swift, Krajewski, Lila, Markus Krajewski's, Morals, Nicholson Baker

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card notes index cards used paper research file slips system information german books writing published use personal knowledge note-taking metadata

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numbersinstance ofthat may be linked to each other through subject headings or other metadata0.80text
tagsinstance ofthat may be linked to each other through subject headings or other metadata0.80text
NoteCardsinstance ofthe card file began to be used as metaphor in the interface of some hypertextual personal knowledge base software applications0.80text
Zettelkastenrelated to 20th centuryAntonin Sertillanges0.60section
Zettelkastenrelated to 20th centuryThe Intellectual Life0.60section
Zettelkastenrelated to 20th centuryChapter0.60section
Zettelkastenrelated to 20th centuryThe0.60section
Zettelkastenrelated to 20th centuryFrench0.60section
Zettelkastenrelated to 20th centuryEnglish0.60section
Zettelkastenrelated to 20th centuryIn0.60section
Zettelkastenrelated to 20th centurySertillanges0.60section
Zettelkastenrelated to 20th centuryHe0.60section

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