- Wright, Alex. Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age. Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Duncan, Dennis. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age. 1st Edition, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2022.
This iteration of the book club might be fruitful for those interested in note taking, commonplacing, or zettelkasting. If you’re building or designing a note taking application or attempting to create one for yourself using either paper (notebooks, index cards) or digital tools like Obsidian, Logseq, Notion, Bear, TinderBox etc. having some background on the history and use of these sorts of tools for thought may give you some insight about how to best organize a simple, but sustainable digital practice for yourself.
The first session will be on Saturday, February 17 24, 2024 and recur weekly from 8:00 AM – 10:00 Pacific. Our meetings are usually very welcoming and casual conversations over Zoom with the optional beverage of your choice. Most attendees are inveterate note takers, so there’s sure to be discussion of application of the ideas to current practices.
To join and get access to the Zoom links and the shared Obsidian vault we use for notes and community communication, ping Dan Allosso with your email address.
Happy reading!
Great book choices! I loved the book about Paul Otlet. It’s like another world, but with so many insights into this one. Unfortunately you all live in the wrong timezone (I guess it doesn’t feel like a problem when you’re in it though). I’d need to wake up at 3am for this which, experience teaches, would not end well. Makes me feel I should start a book club in my own, excellent timezone. Anyone else share my pain?
@chrisaldrich Great topic! I wrote to Dan Allosso to ask for the links but no reply yet. My email may have ended in his spam folder…
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this instantiation of the book club will be commencing on February 24th.