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A One Paragraph Summary of Ahrens’ How to Take Smart notes from 1775-76
Merchants and traders have a waste book (Sudelbuch, Klitterbuch in German I believe) in which they enter daily everything they purchase and sell, messily, without order. From this, it is transferred...
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🗃️ I just did a quick calculation and I’ve purchased 2 large card index cabinets, and 5 small indexes (which includes some small desktop trays and a 2 drawer wooden index) for a total of $636.52. It...
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Mortimer J. Adler’s Syntopicon: a topically arranged collaborative slipbox
Robert Hutchins, former dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929), president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, closes his preface to his grand project with Mortimer J....
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For those who have a significant paper-based zettelkasten practice, have you considered commissioning custom made cards? There are a variety of stationers who do custom work and one could also purchase...
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My recurring five month subscription shipment of 500 Oxford lined index cards arrived just in time tonight. I had exactly two left. 😓🗃️😌
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If you’re going to punch holes in 3 x 5″ index cards for your new library card catalog and want something to match your 20 gauge office furniture, you really ought to have an era-appropriate hole...
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Acquired Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word by Walter J. Ong (Methuen & Co.) Analyzes the differences in consciousness between oral and literate societies and points out the...
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Anne Frank’s Zettelkasten 🗃️
Slipped in between paragraphs about being worried that her family’s hiding place will be discovered by a new building owner and the fairness of rationing butter, Anne Frank mentions being gifted a...
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Bookmarked The Evolution of Biological Information by Christoph Adami (press.princeton.edu) Why information is the unifying principle that allows us to understand the evolution of complexity in nature...
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Scaffolding “Secret” Knowledge: An analogy for teachers of thinkers,...
There’s something incredibly important to learn in studying two very similar photographs of Mortimer J. Adler from the middle of the last century. I’ll present them here for reference: Adler was a...
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I’m in a book club (comprised of academics, historians, educators, inveterate note takers, and lifelong learners) that has chosen its next two books: The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science...
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Read Opinion | Multiple Choice Flunks Out (Published 1988) by Jacques Barzun (New York Times) Many things have been urged upon the beleaguered public schools: install computers, reduce class size, pay...
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Dr. Mike Miller announced in class last night that in the coming Winter quarter at UCLA Extension he’ll be offering a course on elliptic curves. The text for the class will be Rational Points on...
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Oktoberfest has decimated my stock of sauerkraut, so I’ve started fermenting a new batch.
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Today is the release day for Roland Allen’s new book The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper (Profile Books, 2023). Those in the note taking, #zettelkasten, #PKM, and intellectual history spaces...
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Drank Gibson (cocktail) Dry martini with pickled onions. Tonight’s cocktail for some leisurely reading as an accompaniment.
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Replied to a post by Kimberly Hirsh, PhD (kimberlyhirsh.com) If, like me, you grieve Halloween’s passing, I’m delighted to inform you that I have officially extended Halloween season. The last day of...
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Liked a post by Paul Robert Lloyd (paulrobertlloyd.com) It’s a very autumnal IndieWebCamp in Nuremberg this weekend. Red, orange and yellow leaves cut out to resemble the IndieWebCamp logo.
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