Ad "Zettelkasten" and how you "converse" with it (that's how I [mis]understood it): Luhmann started out by doing these things: * He had sequ. numbered cards

Ad "Zettelkasten" and how you "converse" with it (that's how I [mis]understood it): Luhmann started out by doing these things: * He had sequ. numbered cards, that were written on until they were full and therefore could contain multiple topics - and one topic could therefore also be on multiple cards (no. 1,7,15), if he later added to it * He had a topic index to map card numbers to topics * Most important: he used this system with slight variations continuously over years and it was a one person system The benefit (that you can get with a personal wiki too, if you follow the system with Plugins) is, that when you get all cards on a topic, you also get the information on the topic you wrote down right before and after thinking about the topic you are researching... As information organisation and knowledge is a personal thing, retrieving info from the cards with the other topics you thought of right before and after, might lead to subconscious connections that - and here is the "conversation" - then lead to your brain making connections that go beyond what you wrote down on the cards... at least that is how Luhmann described it... could anyone follow my little mental jump session?