Zettelkasten: It’s Like GTD for Writing and Here’s Why You Should Consider It

Phil Houtz
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readApr 11, 2019

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Photo by Pete Birkinshaw from Manchester, UK — Data Storage Device, CC BY 2.0, Link

I stumbled across the zettelkasten note taking process while watching Beck Tench’s helpful Tinderbox series. Beck uses Tinderbox software to create a hyper-organized system of notes for her Ph.D. studies in contemplative practice and information science. Her method of managing these notes is based on the zettelkasten concept developed by Niklas Luhmann.

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