"...it is useful to take advantage of this activity in order to create in the system of notes a competent partner of communication."
Niklas Luhmann
My notes talk to me. In essence, this is what famed sociologist and systems theorist Niklas Luhmann meant when he said his note system was a "competent partner of communication." Although his original field of study was law, he would eventually become a university professor of sociology after one of his books was accepted retroactively as his thesis.
Spanning a 40 year career, his 70+ books and almost 400 articles were published on subjects as diverse as economics, art, love, and mass media. He never used a computer. His tools were a pen, paper, and typewriter. He credits his prolific writing to a special "partner of communication." His Zettelkasten.
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