Doing it right, you can move way beyond inputoutputbased notetaking. Niklas luhman is emeritus professor of sociology at the university of bielefeld. Several of his books have appeared in english, most recently essays in selfreference social systems presents luhmann s startling vision of society as a selfproducing or autopoietic system of communications. The core principle of luhmanns way to manage his notes was a combination of selective tagging, manual links between notes and a sequence of short. Invision employees share their remote work secrets. Er habe diesen nur hinreichend gefuttert, so dass dieser so komplex geworden ist, dass er scheinbar einen eigenen geist entwickelt habe. Why luhmann had to start a second zettelkasten zettelkasten. Saschas post about johannes schmidts analysis of luhmanns zettelkasten and its heavy use of hubs. Im sure ill talk more about that later, and i look forward to sharing ideas with you all. Workflow of luhmanns principle in the electronic zettelkasten think about the topic or subject, where a new note fits into find a starting point in the zettelkasten related to this topic and start reading exploring your existing notes sequences decide whether the note is the start of a new topic sequence. Niklas luhmann, through a secondorder cybernetic systems approach, insisted that societys problems be viewed from the perspective of the difference between the system and its environment. Live recordings from our spartan studio in bielefeld.
I just cant seem to make it work for me practically. Ultimately it seems that all these information systems are just different implementations of nodes, edges, and containers. Zettelkasten according to niklas luhmann free download. Zettelkasten how one german scholar was so freakishly. Autopoiesis and critical social systems theory christian. Niklas luhmann was a german sociologist and an important organisational theorist bechmann and stehr, 2002. Johannes schmidt ist seit 2015 wissenschaftlicher koordinator des langzeitforschungsprojekts theorie als passion zur erschlie. Zettelkasten according to luhmann for windows, mac os x and linux. Welcome to the homepage of the zettelkasten slip box, file card system for your computer. English translation of zettelkasten the official collins germanenglish dictionary online. Vladimir nabokov, jean paul and arno schmidt wrote their novels drafts on index cards. Im sure i would give up on the paper version of the zettelkasten pretty quickly, but ive had copies of the digital version on all my computers, and i use the thing only sporadically.
Zettelkasten method is a powerful knowledge management system, developed by niklas luhmann, a german sociologist. A detailed explanation of how luhmanns zettelkasten notetaking method works and why. You cant download thoughts from another consciousness but trust the ability of. Luhmanns zettelkasten with devonthink organizing creativity. Users click to our page using the search zettelkasten method. The next edition of the zettelkasten method book the zettelkasten notetaking method has made book writing and writing scientific papers easy for hundreds of years already. A digital archive of niklas luhmanns original zettelkasten. The goal of this article is to present the generic form of the zettelkasten in englishslipbox as invented by luhmann himself, as well as why it works and some of the theory behind it. Following luhmann, a system is constituted by the difference of itself and its environment. Estratti dalla traduzione, di prossima pubblicazione, del libro the radical luhmann di hansgeorge moeller sul sociologo tedesco. Im using zettelkasten for both idea and project management, and its working well so far. The name of this spectre is niklas luhmann not because he was the first to use or inventor of the zettelkasten, but because somehow his zettelkasten achieved some status as a celebrity.
Create a zettelkasten for your notes to improve thinking and. English translation of zettelkasten collins german. Sascha and christian introduce themselves and the new video project. Somehow, a rumor did arise that he lost his first zettelkasten. Zettelkasten method was developed by niklas luhmann, and is a. Or indeed, that the modern zettelkasten is bespoke by default. Luhmann 1984 conceives society in rather functional terms, wants to apply maturanas and varelas autopoiesis concept sociologically, and sees social systems as selfreferential systems with communications as its elements. Tableflip mac, a markdown table editor by christian.
Luhmann was influenced by his teacher, talcott parsons, of functional sociology fame, and by edmund husserls phenomenology. One oldschool way of working in a more nonhierarchical way is the zettelkasten by niklas luhmann. The german zettelkasten method book, written by sascha. If you are familiar with the latest research on luhmann s original zettelkasten you already know that his first zettelkasten is not lost. The zettelkasten system is an integral part of this. I was giving a talk at trier digital humanities autumn school 2015 on luhmanns way of working with his zettelkasten, and how i implemented this technique in the electronic zettelkasten. An electronic zettelkasten slip box, file card system according to niklas luhmann. This program is based on the working principle of niklas luhmann s famous zettelkasten. Aug 01, 2019 a structured note taking system descended from sociologist and functionalist, niklas luhmann. Elements of his understanding of the relationship between communication and. Copenhagen business school press, copenhagen 2005, isbn 9788763001625. Contents foreword vi 1 differentiatio as a doubling o f reality 1 n 2 selfreferenc and otherreferenc 1e e 0 3 codin 1g 5 4 systemspecifi universalis 2m c 3.
A button that says download on the app store, and if clicked it. Luhmann, a prolific author, did write his notes on index cards and used a system with references to other index cards to organize his creative work an interesting video is on youtube, unfortunately in german. The name of this spectre is niklas luhmann not because he was. Here you find a list of tested tools to implement your own zettelkasten knowledge management system. In other words, second order cybernetic means that we, the observer, are part of the system of observation. The following biographical sketch is based on one of the interviews in this book, pp. Do you want it to support formatted text andor media. Es gibt in youtube auch ein video, in dem luhmann selbst seinen zettelkasten. Visualization of luhmann s zettelkasten, using the thought condensr think tool. Introduction to luhmanns zettelkasten thinking and its.
Social systems niklas luhmann translated by john bednarz. German sociologist niklas luhmann 19271998 was perhaps the most prominent european sociologist of his time, as well as the author of a prolific list of publications. Niklas luhmann university of bielefeld federal republic of germany abstract recent developments in systems theory have replaced the paradigm of the whole and its parts with the paradigm of system and environment. Since the file is just plain text, it can be opened with any text editor. In this video, youll see the first steps in using the application zettelkasten zkn3 by daniel ludecke. Dec 31, 2019 the first line is the title of the note, the second line is a list of three hashtags, the next line is the idea ive written down, and the last two lines are links to two files. Word counter mac to track your productivity by christian. System differentiation, therefore, has to be conceived as the reduplication of the difference between system and environment. Niklas luhmann has attempted to interpret social systems as selfproducing by taking a nonhumancentered approach. Workflow of luhmann s principle in the electronic zettelkasten think about the topic or subject, where a new note fits into find a starting point in the zettelkasten related to this topic and start reading exploring your existing notes sequences decide whether the note is the start of a new topic sequence. Ever since i read about luhmann s system, ive been kind of fascinated by the concept. Zettelkasten download windows deutsch bei software.