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Scott P. Scheper
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Scott P. Scheper's personal blog at daily.scottscheper.com covers writing and productivity. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Communication with Noteboxes – An Empirical Account – By Niklas Luhmann”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog in a thread about notes apps. One commenter uses the Zettelkasten topic to argue that the value lies in building a system that surprises you, not in storing information.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Communication with Noteboxes – An Empirical Account – By Niklas Luhmann2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-01
What Hacker News says?
I strongly recommend everyone read Luhmann's original paper [1] on Zettelkasten. What I got from it is that, the process is less about storing/retrieving information, but more about building a system that can surprise you - the way ideas emerge when you brainstorm with others. These others being people with the same level of knowledge as you - so, not the kind of information flow that happens between an expert and a…
Comment linking /zettelkasten/
on “Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good”Submitted Antinets (a.k.a. analog Zettelkästen) and the power of tree structures as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Critical Part of Human Memory Is Lost When Opting for a Digital Zettelkasten as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The One Thing You Need to Build a True Zettelkasten (An Antinet) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Communication with Noteboxes – An Empirical Account – By Niklas Luhmann as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Anatomy of an Antinet Note as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fundamental Component Missing from Digital Zettelkastens as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Honest Opinion on Whether or Not an an Analog Zettelkasten Is for Everyone as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Atomic Design? More Like Atomic Horseshit as a story · 1 points
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