Just wrote a short summary of my method to a friend. However, these aren't so bad not to have, part of the genius of Luhmann's original paper card notes system seems to have been the critical thinking required to determine which handful (1 to 3) of notes are most related and the serendipitous discovery process from having to manually walk the note files when you need to find something. Something I wish it had for this purpose was an "auto-complete" for other entries and a graphical tree viewer of relations. While not as stream-lined as some special purpose note taking tools, Zotero can do a pretty decent job at this while also having all the advantages of it's bibliographic system, file syncing, etc. I then keep a primary repository of notes in a flat folder with links between them and the literature notes as my makeshift Zettelkasten. After reading an article, I write up a summary of my ideas and thoughts and attach it to the article as a literature note. * the ability to add notes, tags, and relational links between items.Īfter reading about Luhmann's Zettelkasten system, I've also had a great productivity boost by implementing a similar scheme in Zotero. * shared group libraries for collaboration with students * browser extension "that just works" for ingesting items and magic lookup tool for DOIs and arXiv IDs (and I hardly ever have problems with the metadata) As an academic, it is the only GUI program besides Firefox that I consider essential on one of my computers. Zotero is simply a wonderful tool and I'm very grateful to the developers for it.
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