Lifestyles of the Note Takers & Intellectuals: Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote most of his works including Lolita using index cards in a slip box. The slipbox and index cards on which Vladimir Nabokov wrote his novel Lolita. He ultimately died in...
View ArticleSinger Business Furniture 20 gauge steel industrial 16 drawer index card...
I suppose if you’re gonna goin “all-in” on having a zettelkasten (slip box) or index card-based commonplace book you may as well invest in some serious atomic-era heavy steel hardware… So today I took...
View ArticleS.D. Goitein’s Card Index (or Zettelkasten)
Abstract Scholar and historian S.D. Goitein built and maintained a significant collection of over 27,000 notes in the form of a card index (or zettelkasten1) which he used to fuel his research and...
View ArticleA note about my article on Goitein with respect to Zettelkasten Output Processes
Not long ago I made a Call for Model Examples of Zettelkasten Output Processes. To answer a part of that call and to highlight my own reading, note taking, and writing process, in the production of...
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