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My sense is that the design goal of Zettelkasten is basically this. Why note cards? Why only a few sentences per card? So you can insert text in a fine-grained
by akkartik 4y ago
My sense is that the design goal of Zettelkasten is basically this. Why note cards? Why only a few sentences per card? So you can insert text in a fine-grained manner -- and so you can insert cross-links in a fine-grained manner.
- dredmorbius 4y agoPretty much what I was going to suggest. More generally, with handwritten (or other physically-manifested writings), an indexing and referencing system substitutes for hyperlinks. The Bullet Journal index and references operate in a similar manner. The O'Reilly book UNIX Power Tools offers a print hypertext experience by numbering each individual article and section, and liberally referencing between these. The first edition is superior to later ones in that the text is printed in multiple colours (black and blue) which distinguish the text and navigational elements, much as early Web documents did with the standardisation of blue link colours. For those who remember such things, the paper and print card catalogues of libraries operated similarly.