The Slipbox note taking methodThe Slipbox note taking method
The zettlekasten (slip box) is a method of note taking designed by Niklas Luhman in the 1950s and 60s. While his system was done by hand on index cards using a linking system to connect cards t..., or Zettelkasten method, is designed to create a sort of automated conversation partner. Luhman was very explicit in this use of the slip box as a sort of automated conversation partner. He even refers to his slip box as a person in his essay, Communicating With Slip Boxes, and later describes how the process of creating a Zettelkasten allows a "living" ego to emerge from the notes.
As a result of extensive work with this technique a kind of secondary memory will arise, an alter ego with who we can constantly communicate. It proves to be similar to our own memory in that it does not have a thoroughly constructed order of its entirety, not hierarchy, and most certainly no linear structure like a book. Just because of this, it gets its own life, independent of its author.
This emergence of a separate consciousness is similar in nature to Golems, Tulpas, or Servitors. We are Creating an Internal Conscious BeingCreating an Internal Conscious Being
Creating a Internal Conscious Being is a common magical practice found across many paradigms and traditions. While the creation ritual and method varies, there are some commonalities we can poi... but instead of using blood and clay as the medium for this new life, we are using our own knowledge- externalized and made living by threading the pieces together.
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Zettelkasten is usually mentioned as a note-taking method. However, the end goal of Zettelkasten is not gathering and collecting notes, but rather creating a competent and knowledgeable communication partner.
The main interaction with the slip-box is not when we are writing and adding new notes, because the slip-box is not there to be an archive of our memory and knowledge. Slip-box is there to be an apparatus with which we think. Therefore, the main interaction is when we communicate with the slip-box by confronting ourselves and our thinking with our prior knowledge.
Niklas Luhmann, Communicating With Slip Boxes
What follows is a piece of empirical sociology. It concerns me and someone else, namely my slip box [or index card file].