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A photo in which I reveal the generative creativity drawers that Niklas Luhmann’s #zettelkasten was missing… (content warning: Alcohol) 🗃️🥃

Oblique angle of a bottle of Glenmorangie scotch and two crystal old fashioned glasses in open adjoining drawers of a library card catalog

Format ImagePosted on September 23, 2023 4:11 pmSeptember 23, 2023Author Chris AldrichCategories Photo, Social StreamTags alcohol, cocktails, generative creativity, Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten, ZettelkastenSyndicated copies:
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Split screen black and white photos of Niklas Luhmann and S.D. Goitein. Superimposed over their images are their respective outputs: (Luhmann) "90,000 slips, 550 articles, 50 books" vs (Goitein) "27,000+ slips, 669 articles, 69 books"

Zettelkasten Face Off: Niklas Luhmann vs S.D. Goitein

Format ImagePosted on January 19, 2023 4:17 pmJanuary 19, 2023Author Chris AldrichCategories note taking, Photo, Social StreamTags Niklas Luhmann, productivity, S.D. Goitein, Zettelkasten, zettelkasten outputSyndicated copies:
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Happy Newww Year
A young boy in silhouette launching a paper lantern with a flame lit inside it into a darkening sky with birds in the distance. Overlain on the image is the message: Happy Newww Year! What will you launch on your own website this year?
Format ImagePosted on December 31, 2022 10:32 pmDecember 31, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories IndieWeb, Photo, Social StreamTags HappyNewwwYearSyndicated copies:
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A Christmas Zettel

A 4x6" lined index card with the title: A Christmas Zettel. It has a Luhmannesque number identifier: 1225/Fa1a2a/1aLaLa/1a2a1a. The body of the note reads: Deck the halls with boughs of holly.

Wishing all my friends and fellow note takers a happy holidays!

Format ImagePosted on December 24, 2022 12:52 pmDecember 24, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories note takingTags holidays, humor, ZettelkastenSyndicated copies:
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A notepad for my Zettelkasten! 🗃️

30 index cards, some bookbinder’s (PVA) glue, a brush, some clips, and ten minutes of craft time. We’re ready for the road…

Wooden table featuring a deck index cards bound by glue at the top stand up near some PVA adhesive surrounded by some binder clips, a paint brush, a Lochby case of fountain pens and a stationery bag.

Format ImagePosted on December 5, 2022 2:22 pmDecember 5, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories note takingTags crafts, DIY, index cards, note pads, ZettelkastenSyndicated copies:
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Analog Zettelkasten Nightmares 🗃️

gif of librarian from Ghostbusters walking down an aisle with books on the left and a large card catalog on the right. As she walks down drawers begin opening on their own and cards begin flying up into the air and swirling around.

Format ImagePosted on November 28, 2022 9:56 amNovember 28, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories note takingTags Ghostbusters, library card catalogs, nightmares, ZettelkastenSyndicated copies:
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Zotero with a side of Ditch Twitter
I switched from Mastodon to Twitter to look something up and noticed they’re trying to entice me back with trending topics they know I’ll love. 

Twitter's trending topics include "Voting, Zotero, and Ditch Twitter"

Back to Mastodon…

Format ImagePosted on November 8, 2022 10:07 amNovember 8, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories Photo, Social StreamTags algorithmic feeds, trending topics, Twitter, ZoteroSyndicated copies:
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Some elegant mathematics for the fall.
Format ImagePosted on October 5, 2022 11:50 pmOctober 6, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories Instagram, Mathematics, Photo, Social StreamTags A. Ya. KhinchinSyndicated copies:
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An advance copy of Sean M Carroll's next book just arrived from Dutton/Penguin. I can't wait to delve into the juicy looking poetry of equations one of my favorite natural philosophers has composed.
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Format ImagePosted on September 9, 2022 2:22 pmSeptember 9, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories Instagram, Photo, Science, Social StreamTags physics, Sean Carroll, theoretical physicsSyndicated copies:
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Starting a new Field Notes notebook
Format ImagePosted on August 8, 2022 9:51 amAugust 9, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories note taking, Photo, Social StreamTags Field Notes, waste booksLeave a comment on
I can’t help but thinking that this was a pho restaurant called Enix Pharmacy and that mortar and pestle could totally be a prescribed bowl of noodle soup right?
Format ImagePosted on June 30, 2022 2:37 pmJune 30, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories Photo, Social StreamTags pharmacies, phoSyndicated copies:
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A very clever and creative way to imagine an image of Niklas Luhmann in a way which indicates that “the medium is the message.”

Image via Alexander Kluge/ Universität Bielefeld

Format ImagePosted on May 30, 2022 11:38 amAugust 8, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories note taking, Social StreamTags Niklas Luhmann, ZettelkastenSyndicated copies:
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An occasional reminder:

black and white photo of apples with the one in the middle being red. Overlaid texts reads "Not all social media is the same. indieweb.org"

Format ImagePosted on May 11, 2022 12:11 pmMay 11, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories IndieWeb, Photo, Social StreamSyndicated copies:
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Illuminated N from MS Coll 591 Folder 21
Close up of a blue initial letter N with red flourishing. From a manuscript bifolia consisting of one leaf with the complete text of two columns written in 47 lines and one leaf trimmed with loss of text in one column. Written in an Italian Gothic script, with 2-line initials in blue with red flourishing at the beginning of each entry possibly added in England.
Kislak Center for Special Collections – Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 591 Folder 21
There’s something whimsical I just love about the added red decoration to the illuminated initials I saw at Coffee With a Codex this morning. 
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Format ImagePosted on March 23, 2022 9:51 amMarch 23, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories Social StreamTags Coffee with a Codex, illuminated manuscriptsSyndicated copies:
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With tiny arms you POSSE for the reach
Dinosaur meme of a T-Rex with a huge head and tiny arms with overlain text that reads "With Tiny Arms / You POSSE for the reach"
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Format ImagePosted on January 6, 2022 4:15 pmJanuary 6, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories IndieWeb, Photo, Social StreamTags blogging, memes, POSSE, syndication, TwitterSyndicated copies:
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