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Posted by MenAgerie
Jan 22, 2014 at 11:45 PM

 

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The screen names is less a Tennessee Williams reference that a Billy Cobam and Bud Powell reference (although I misremembered the Bud Powell piece Glass Enclosure!). I was ‘Prog Rocking out’ at the time!
I have very little experience with Zettlekasten - and none of AskSam. I gave it an outing a very long time ago, when beginning to scout out the whole outliner thing - it just didn’t feel right after using MyInfo, which I took to straight away; and still use to this day.
The reason for my post was to try and get some English language pointers as to Zettlekasten’s (Zttlkn) utility and way of deploying it. I have little time to spend on extensive experimentation, even on software I can understand. But Zttlkn looks promising, from Manfred Kuehn’s comments [http://takingnotenow.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/luedeckes-zettelkasten-again.html], and from what I can decipher with the help of Google translate.
What I have found that seems to do what I want (academic social science/theory) is NotaBene (NB), particularity the ibidem/orbis functions. Specifically, I want a way of recording my reading notes against a bibliographic reference - consisting of quotes, precis, and my reflections, in such a way that I can assemble multiple notes on a particular topic/sub-topic into the bare-bones of a discussion/argument without losing the bibliographical references (fear of plagiarism accusations). In this way I could in future assemble, reassemble, experiment, synthesise the fruits of my diverse labours in multiple creative ways - hopefully to produce novel insights etc.
Unfortunately I found NB rather annoying and confusing (with its hidden ‘mark up type codes’ messing with my paragraphs etc): and as I said initially, I simply feel like a fool sitting in front of Connected Text, not knowing what to do, or what is going on. Not a good attribute for a piece of software.
My search continues… crimp-style.