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Aidan Helfant on PKM for Learning

The Informed Life

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The Zettelkasten System of Note Taking

The Zettelkasten system of note taking was first developed by German scientist Nicholas Looman in the early 20th century. He created little index cards that he would write individual ideas on with the reference back to the source material. The notes were just basically ways for me to remind myself of what teachers said during class.

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