(صندوق الملاحظات)(note box)
The zettelkasten is the method/workflow that Niklas Luhmann popularised or invented to take notes and publish ideas, papers and books.
This technique and tools turned the son of a brewer into one of the most productive and revered social scientists of the 20th century (Niklas Luhmann). It describes how he implemented them into his workflow so he could say, “I never force myself to do anything I don’t feel like. Whenever I am stuck, I do something else.”
and despite his significant output Niklas Luhmann wrote very little about his zettelkasten while the bits and peices that can be gleaned from interviews and his essay “communicating with note boxes” are valuable and telling, first-hand accounts of Luhmann’s practice and reasoning are few.