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Sean Lawson's personal blog at seanlawson.net covers security and productivity. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Use Zettelkasten Method for More Scientific Note Taking (2018)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2018–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Introductory posts on the Zettelkasten note-taking method, which HN readers link as a good starting point for learning the approach to deep, long-term thinking.

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.

Sean Lawson is an academic researcher and author whose work focuses on the intersections of science, technology, and security. He is Professor of Communication at the University of Utah, where he has taught since 2008. In the 2019-2020 academic year, he served as an Adjunct Scholar at the Modern War

Most-linked posts?

  1. Use Zettelkasten Method for More Scientific Note Taking (2018)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. gw666 · 2019-05-29Recommends
    I am beginning to use a zettelkasten. I think it's an excellent method for doing deep thinking, especially over a long period of time. See https://www.seanlawson.net/2018/02/use-zettelkasten-method-s... and https://zoia.org/2018/11/13/zettelkasten/ for good introductions. Reading this will change your life: https://www.amazon.com/How-Take-Smart-Notes-Nonfiction/dp/15... I'm committed to text-only information. No mat…

    Comment linking /2018/02/use-zettelkasten-method-scientific-note-taking/

    on “Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository?”
  2. Submitted Use Zettelkasten Method for More Scientific Note Taking (2018) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Protect Personal Information When Shopping Online (2017) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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