Vertical Thinking

by Nathan Cheever

How to get up and running with an analog Zettlekästen (slipbox)

Three months and 110+ cards in, the lessons learned the hard way

Preface There is a veritable plethora of videos and articles on how to setup a digital Zettlekästen. There are tons of blogs and forums about Niklas Luhmann’s practice, his prolific publishing record. So why add another one? Frankly most of them aren’t that helpful. I learn by seeing how something is actually done, especially an analog process. And more importantly, I want it to be true to the process Luhmann discovered.