Zettelkasten
Building on the word zettel
A zettel means a piece of note or paper in German. In the context of this notebook, it refers to...
Building on the word zette, a zettelkaste is a box that holds zettel. The plural for zettelkasten is zettelkästen
Wait but...
A zettel means a piece of note or paper in German. In the context of this notebook, it refers to...Zettel
Zettelkasten
Zettel
Wait but there’s more than that. Developed (or perhaps popularised) by the German sociology researcher Niklas Luhmann, the zettelkasten system is also a note taking system that serves as a robust personal knowledge management system.
Though different from Niklas Luhmann’s physical zettelkasten, this notebook employs some of its underlying principles as discussed in Note-Taking System.