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Card File

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Zettelkasten.

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^ . In Matuz, Roger (ed.). Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, and Other Creative Writers. Vol. 56. Detroit; London: Gale Research. p. 392. ISBN . ISSN 0091-3421. 'Zettel' is German for an index card, and a 'Zettelkasten' is a writer's index card file. Schmidt prepared for Zettels Traum with a collection of more than 100,000 index cards in his legendary card file.
^ 144. doi:10.7551/mitpress/10029.003.0008. ISBN . JSTOR j.ctt17kk9g5.10. OCLC 897401730. A book on the same topic published a decade earlier was: Teitelbaum, Harry (1966). "Note-taking". How to Write Theses: A Guide to the Research Paper. Monarch Notes and Study Guides. Vol. 888–8. New York: Distributed by Monarch Press. pp. 29–39. ISBN . OCLC 189085.
^ 8): 133–155 (146). doi:10.1177/0263276420958052. S2CID 225124110. Over the decades, cards put to personal use have provided aesthetic and intellectual inspiration to myriad artists, writers, and designers.
^ . Computer. 20 (9): 17–41. doi:10.1109/MC.1987.1663693. S2CID 9188803. Archived(PDF) from the original on 2017-08-13. One kind of manual hypertext is the traditional use of 3×5 index cards for note taking. Note cards are often referenced to each other, as well as arranged hierarchically (for example, in a shoebox or in rubber-banded bundles). A particular advantage of note cards is that their small size modularizes the notes into small chunks. The user can easily reorganize a set of cards when new information suggests a restructuring of the notes. ... Perhaps the best known version of full hypertext [software] is the NoteCards system developed at Xerox PARC.
Neuwirth, Christine; Kaufer, David; Chimera, Rick; Gillespie, Terilyn (November 1987). "The Notes Program: A Hypertext Application for Writing from Source Texts". HYPERTEXT '87: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext: November 13–15, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 121–141. doi:10.1145/317426.317437. ISBN . OCLC 612420419. The Notes program has an analog in earlier technology: 3×5 note cards. The following section, which outlines some key components in the writing process, lays the theoretical groundwork for exploring the benefits of note cards for writers, the limitations of conventional note cards, and the expected benefits of computer-based note cards. ... At least one of the general network-based editors, NoteCards, could probably be specialized to support the task-optimized linking of the Notes program.
Halasz, Frank G. (July 1988). "Reflections on NoteCards: Seven Issues for the Next Generation of Hypermedia Systems". Communications of the ACM. 31 (7): 836–852. doi:10.1145/48511.48514. NoteCards was designed to help people work with ideas. Its intended users are authors, researchers, designers, and other intellectual laborers engaged in analyzing information, constructing models, formulating arguments, designing artifacts, and generally processing ideas. The system provides the user with a network of electronic notecards interconnected by typed links. ... Fileboxes are specialized cards that can be used to organize or categorize large collections of notecards.
Lin, Liang-Yi (1989). Learning to Use Hypertext Systems with Metaphors: An Interface Design Perspective (Ed.D. thesis). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ISBN . OCLC 23103660. ProQuest 303766704. NoteCards provides the user with a "semantic network" of electronic notecards interconnected by typed links. This network serves as a medium in which the user can represent collections of related ideas. It also functions as a structure for organizing, storing, and retrieving information. In the NoteCards system, a note card is an electronic generalization of the 3 by 5 paper note card. ... Links are used to interconnect individual note cards into networks or structures of related cards. ... The note card metaphor embodied some of the important elements of hypertext systems which the book metaphor did not have.
Nielsen, Jakob (1995). "NoteCards (1985)". Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond. Boston: AP Professional. pp. 47–50. ISBN . OCLC 31709144. NoteCards may be the most famous of the original hypertext research systems ... Each node is a single notecard ... The links are typed connections between cards.

^ . Boston: Addison-Wesley. pp. 15, 365. ISBN . OCLC 45715320. Ward called it 'the simplest online database that could possibly work'. In 1994, he wanted a quick way to collaboratively publish software patterns on the Web. Ideas that had developed from his work with program development and HyperCard stacks went into it, and the first 'wiki server' was born. ... Wiki shares some history with the use of index cards in object-oriented programming. Both Wiki and CRC Cards credit an unpublished HyperCard stack as their common ancestor.

^ This book, which was also translated into Spanish, grew out of a pamphlet titled Educational Research first published in 1927. For other editions, see: "Alexander, Carter 1881–1965". WorldCat 2022.

^ 'Alles Wesentliche findet sich im Zettelkasten'". heise online (in German). Archived from the original on 2020-07-15.

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^ . Methods of Research: Educational, Psychological, Sociological. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. pp. 187–188. doi:10.1037/13206-004. OCLC 310881.

^ . Translated by Mary Ryan. Westminster, Maryland: The Newman Press. pp. 186–198. OCLC 6033719. Translated from the 1934 new French edition. For other editions, see: "Sertillanges, A.-D 1863–1948". WorldCat 2021.

^ . Introduction to Research in American History (2nd ed.). New York: Macmillan. pp. 46–55. OCLC 1374221.

^ An earlier version of this chapter was published as: Webb, Beatrice (1926). "The Art of Note-taking". My Apprenticeship. London; New York: Longmans, Green & Co. pp. 412–421. ISBN . OCLC 392496.{{}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility ()

^ . A Research Manual for College Studies and Papers (3rd ed.). New York: Harper & Row. pp. 95–105. OCLC 1264058764. Chapter 9, "Notes Into Manuscript", describes how notes from a card file are used during the process of writing a work. The first edition, titled A Research Manual, was co-authored with Allan H. Stevenson.

^ . Understanding History: A Primer of Historical Method (2nd ed.). New York: Knopf. pp. 73–85. OCLC 3861.

^ . An Introduction to Research in English Literary History: With a Chapter on Research in Folklore. New York: Macmillan. pp. 86–88. OCLC 990373.

^ (6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth. pp. 22–31, 176–183. ISBN . OCLC 53244810. The authors opine that "the researcher who has to travel is better off with notebooks than with stacks of cards" (23). Chapter 8, "Organizing", describes how notes from a card file are used during the process of writing a work.

^ . A Guide to Historical Method. The Dorsey Series in History (3rd ed.). Homewood, Ill.: Dorsey Press. pp. 117–126. ISBN . OCLC 6400352.

^ For other editions, see: "Heyde, Johannes Erich 1892–1979". WorldCat 2022.

^ 692. doi:10.2307/1895394. JSTOR 1895394.

^ . Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press. ISBN . OCLC 41176710.

Hanssen, Beatrice, ed. (2006). Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project. Walter Benjamin Studies Series. London; New York: Continuum. ISBN . OCLC 53912748.