# Digital Zettelkasten  ## Metadata - Author: [[David Kadavy]] - Full Title: Digital Zettelkasten - Category: #books ## Highlights - Zettelkasten is German for "slip box" ([Location 123](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B095VY4XGD&location=123)) - The Zettelkasten method has been around since the sixteenth century, but its most famous practitioner was Niklas Luhmann, a German sociologist who used it to write seventy books and hundreds of articles. ([Location 127](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B095VY4XGD&location=127)) - Unlike a card-catalog in an old library, the purpose of a Zettelkasten is not to find an individual note, but rather to explore the connections amongst notes. ([Location 129](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B095VY4XGD&location=129))