Thread by @beauhaan

Even though [[Niklas Luhmann]] creatively mitigated the limitations of a physical slip box, the hinderance from juggling such things in this analog form, is comparably weak to the efficiency of an implementation in the digital realm

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1️⃣ The main difficulty with a physical slip box is the actual index cards, while even using the thinnest cards possible, the juggling of such materials is obsolete within the digital realm

2️⃣ [[Niklas Luhmann]] creatively cut the paper to it's smallest physical limitations and utilized the thinnest index cards that he could, but even with these solutions the weakness was apparent when he would have to juggle such things, which has huge detriment to workflow

3️⃣ The fact that he had to actually open and close, move and rearrange these things, takes away from the most important work—actually working with his thoughts

4️⃣ Creatively solving the problems of the actual physical slip box gave [[Niklas Luhmann]] incredible efficiency, but even with these solutions the hinderance that juggling such things has, made the workflow less than ideal

5️⃣ The limitations of a fixed system of order needed a new way of looking at how ideas and thoughts would connect, and by seeing the possibility of off-loading that responsibility to computers, [[Niklas Luhmann]] was able to implement something revolutionary

6️⃣ And this is why the convergence of [[Zettelkasten]] and @RoamResearch is so mind blowing.

7️⃣ The power of an index to provide entry-points into the [[Zettelkasten]] were necessary in order to see beyond the card at hand, but the unimaginable technological advancements in computers have presented a even more granular solution to seeing beyond the bend

8️⃣ The sequence in which new notes are added, builds on top of the previous note, which allows for the powerful inside-out formation of knowledge

9️⃣ The power of this is when you are able to jump from these ideas into totally different branches of threaded thought

https://twitter.com/beauhaan/status/1394812754524000257?s=20

🔟 Because the overarching system is no longer predicated on a folder or a constraint, it creates a vitally different approach, which produces vitally different results

https://twitter.com/beauhaan/status/1340808149234642944?s=20

BEHIND THE SCENES:

I didn't write a SINGLE word—I just dragged over from my Zettelkasten in @RoamResearch

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