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Introduction to Luhmann's Zettelkasten-thinking and its technical

implementation
Instructor: Daniel Lüdecke
This lecture gives an introduction into a specific scholarly technique of reading and excerpting
texts and organizing personal knowledge: the fundamental principle of building a
“Zettelkasten” (slip box), as practiced by Niklas Luhmann. The aim of this lecture is, first, to
illustrate the theoretical background and working principle of Niklas Luhmann’s Zettelkasten;
second, a computer based implementation of this technique is demonstrated, which – in
contrast to many other available software solutions – aims at reproducing the working principle
of Niklas Luhmann’s Zettelkasten.

Bibliography for further study


Krajewski, Markus, 2003. Elektronische Literaturverwaltungen. Kleiner Katalog von Merkmalen
und Möglichkeiten, in: Norbert Franck and Joachim Stary (Eds.), Technik wissenschaftlichen
Arbeitens (= UTB), 11., completely revised Ed., Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn, p. 97—
115 (http://www.verzetteln.de/LiteraturVerwaltung.pdf)
Lüdecke, Daniel, 2015. Zettelkasten. Nach Niklas Luhmann.
http://zettelkasten.danielluedecke.de/
Luhmann, Niklas, 1993. Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen. Ein Erfahrungsbericht. In: André
Kieserling (Ed.), Universität als Milieu, p. 53-61. Haux, Bielefeld.
Tietze, Christian, 2015. Zettelkasten. http://zettelkasten.de/posts/

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