Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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.