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  34. <title>Acquisition: 1949 Royal Quiet De Luxe Portable Typewriter</title>
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  39. <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
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  51. For the rapidly decreasing amount of space I&#8217;ve got for storing and actively using the handful of machines I&#8217;ve got in my burgeoning typewriter collection, I&#8217;ve begun to become a bit more discerning of new acquisitions. I had yet to add a Royal the fleet, and I&#8217;ve had my eye on a handful, but the &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/25/acquisition-1949-royal-quiet-de-luxe-portable-typewriter/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Acquisition: 1949 Royal Quiet De Luxe Portable Typewriter</span></a>]]></description>
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  54. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/25/acquisition-1949-royal-quiet-de-luxe-portable-typewriter/"><img title="Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter on a wooden table" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17140884758647749687265010704702.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Front view down onto a gray crinkle painted Royal Quiet De Luxe with black glass keys and a wide black space bar which overlays the metal frame of the front of the machine. The typewriter sits on a polished wooden table which provides a stark natural contrast to the industrial nature of the typewriter&#039;s esthetic." width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
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  56. <p>For the rapidly decreasing amount of space I&#8217;ve got for storing and actively using the handful of machines I&#8217;ve got in my <a href="https://boffosocko.com/tag/typewriter-collection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">burgeoning typewriter collection</a>, I&#8217;ve begun to become a bit more discerning of new acquisitions. I had yet to add a Royal the fleet, and I&#8217;ve had my eye on a handful, but the ones that stuck out most vividly to me were a span of years in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Today  a Royal Quiet De Luxe (often seen abbreviated as QDL) has joined the family. </p>
  57. <p></p>
  58. <h2>Design</h2>
  59. <p>The kicker on this typewriter model for me, beyond the general beauty of this era of Royals, was reading that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dreyfuss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Henry Dreyfuss</a> (1904-1972), one of the most influential industrial designers of the 20th century, had produced a model of the QDL for Royal in 1948. In my opinion, it&#8217;s one of the prettiest in the entire Royal line, and possibly in the pantheon of typewriters in general. Really, who could resist the textured crinkle gray magic paint, the hint of yellow in the lettering, with just enough black and shiny chrome, combined with metal wrapped glass keys that lovingly cup your fingertips?</p>
  60. <p>Also intriguing to me was that Dreyfuss had lived, until his death in 1972, in South Pasadena, California seven tenths of a mile from my old apartment on Orange Grove Boulevard and less than 7 miles from my current home in Altadena, CA. It seems very apropos to have a neighbor&#8217;s typewriter in the house.</p>
  61. <p>For those who are unaware of his name, you&#8217;re surely aware of his work which included the design of iconic products which included the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_500_telephone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Western Electric Model 500 telephone</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_telephone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princess phone</a>, and the Trimline phone;  several John Deere tractors; the ubiquitous round <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_T87" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Honeywell T87 thermostat</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_SX-70" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Polaroid&#8217;s SX-70 camera</a>; the Westclox Big Ben clock; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoover_Company#Henry_Dreyfuss_and_Hoover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hoover&#8217;s model 150 vacuum cleaner</a>, and the New York Central Railroad&#8217;s streamlined Mercury train as well as their <a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Central_Hudson">Hudson</a> locomotive for the <a title="20th Century Limited" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Limited">20th Century Limited</a>. </p>
  62. <p>It could easily fit into a dark academia setting and might be the typewriter you could imagine Cary Grant, George Clooney, or Jude Law would have on their desks.</p>
  63. <p>Henry Dreyfuss&#8217; Royal QDL certainly meets both of William Morris&#8217; criteria when he instructed “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” As the brief typewriter manual touts, the machine &#8220;will add grace to any room or setting.&#8221; It is not wrong. This machine is both handsome and dapper all at once. If a typewriter were to wear a business suit bordering on formal, this model would be the life of the cocktail party wearing a debonair hat. </p>
  64. <h2>Overall Condition</h2>
  65. <p>The serial number on the machine is A-1927573 which the <a href="https://typewriterdatabase.com/royal.72.typewriter-serial-number-database" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Typewriter Database dates</a> to 1949. Based on the spread of serial numbers from that production year, this was likely manufactured in December of 1949.  This means that this machine will celebrate its 75th birthday this coming Winter. I intend to give it the 75th year it richly deserves.</p>
  66. <figure id="attachment_55822813" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-55822813" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="55822813" data-permalink="https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/25/acquisition-1949-royal-quiet-de-luxe-portable-typewriter/wp-17141069969314639710731593419871/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17141069969314639710731593419871.jpg?fit=2000%2C1500&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2000,1500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Serial number on my Royal Quiet De Luxe" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;The serial number on the 1949 Royal Quiet De Luxe can be found on the top left corner of the machine underneath the carriage.&lt;/p&gt;
  67. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17141069969314639710731593419871.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17141069969314639710731593419871.jpg?fit=660%2C495&amp;ssl=1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-55822813" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17141069969314639710731593419871.jpg?resize=660%2C495&#038;ssl=1" alt="Serial number A-1927573 stamped into black metal recessed into the gray frame of the typewriter." width="660" height="495" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17141069969314639710731593419871.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w,  300w,  768w,  750w,  1536w,  2000w,  1320w" sizes="(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-55822813" class="wp-caption-text">The serial number on the 1949 Royal Quiet De Luxe can be found on the top left corner of the machine underneath the carriage.</figcaption></figure>
  68. <p>I bought this in an online auction with very little information to go on, but things have turned out exceedingly well for just a few dollars. The typewriter came with the original case, a small <a href="https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/Royalgraymagicportables.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14 page manual</a> describing it as &#8220;Gray Magic&#8221;, and a Royal typewriter brush. The machine itself has almost no external flaws or scratching. It definitely shows some signs of use and age, but the exterior cleaned up very well.</p>
  69. <p>All the keys worked well aside from one or two which may need some minor attention for borderline stickiness. The machine&#8217;s shift keys were binding when I pressed them, but I couldn&#8217;t see anything obviously causing any issues. A quick trip to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6DTh5TK6x0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phoenix Typewriter&#8217;s YouTube channel identified the problem and a fix</a> that was done in about two minutes of simple adjustment by properly forming a small metal tab.</p>
  70. <p>The variable spacer on the left platen knob also seems to have an issue, but I can easily get around it functionally until I have a few minutes to figure out what might be causing the problem. I&#8217;ll also have to do a quick clean out of the insides to remove some built up oil and dust and give it a quick service. The rubber feet and the platen have certainly seen better days; I&#8217;ll get around to replacing them shortly.</p>
  71. <p>The ribbon it came with, a standard black and red on the original (universal) spools, still has some reasonable life left in it.</p>
  72. <p>The case which has a predominantly yellow and black flecked tweed wrap has seen some action but is in generally good shape for its age. The interior seems near mint while the exterior has a few minor discolorations and one small stain. One of my favorite upcycle recommendations: &#8220;With the Portable removed,&#8221; as stated in the manual, &#8220;the case may be used as an ideal overnight bag.&#8221; I could almost imagine that Roger O. Thornhill in <em>North by Northwest</em> (1959) wished he&#8217;d had such a case when embarking on his escape on the Twentieth Century Limited from Grand Central Station with Eve Kendall. In fact, I&#8217;d almost swear that a brunette version of Eva Marie Saint is on the cover of the typewriter&#8217;s manual.</p>
  73. <h2>Keys</h2>
  74. <p>The Royal earns the &#8220;De Luxe&#8221; portion of its name with the lush keys alone. While many newer typewriters of its era were converting to less expensive mass manufactured plastic keys, the QDL went with somewhat square keys with a domed top. Some might describe them as &#8220;tombstone&#8221; keys, but their subtle roundness provides a <em>memento mori</em> that makes you elated to be alive and using them. The letters are a very light yellow against a black background with the yellow hints being picked up again in the numbered hashes on the paper table scale. Over the keys are polished glass which is indented slightly. The manual calls them &#8220;Finger-Flow Keys&#8221; which are &#8220;designed to cradle your fingertips.&#8221; The tactile experience is sublime.</p>
  75. <p>The 49 key keyboard is a standard American typewriter set up without any frills like a &#8220;1&#8221; or an &#8220;=&#8221;. The usual back space and margin release (labeled &#8220;Mar Rel&#8221;) are present along with both left and right &#8220;Shift Freedom&#8221; shift keys and a shift &#8220;lock&#8221; key on the left side. (The typewriter has a basket shift rather than a carriage shift.) A &#8220;tab&#8221; key sits in the top right of the keyboard next to the */- key on the top row.</p>
  76. <p>The front of the keyboard features an ample black Bakelite space bar which forms the front edge of the machine. It&#8217;s presence helps to ground the machine and balance out the black Quiet De Luxe badge and platen at the top of the machine. This design prevents one&#8217;s thumbs from hitting a front metal frame of the typewriter, which happens on some poorly designed models in which the spacebar doesn&#8217;t sit above the frame with enough clearance. </p>
  77. <p></p>
  78. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  79. <p></p>
  80. <h2>Other Functionality</h2>
  81. <p>This is the first machine I&#8217;ve had with an adjustable or disappearing card finger which one can move down out of the way with a quick pivot. This pivot is useful for more easily switching ribbons, but given the number of index cards I go through, it&#8217;s likely to stay in the up position most of the time.</p>
  82. <p>I&#8217;ve never previously had a typewriter with a Magic Margin&#x2122;, but this one has got a small metal switch on the back left of the machine which allows one to set the left margin quickly and easily with a tiny pull. Of course one can flip up the paper table behind the platen to expose the two metal margin set mechanisms which can be set manually. I love how Dreyfuss has cleverly hidden this functionality. I&#8217;d have to take a look at the margin set mechanisms to ensure the escapement would be protected properly, but when storing the typewriter, one could quickly center the carriage and set the margins for the center character as a pseudo-carriage lock. </p>
  83. <p></p>
  84. <p></p>
  85. <p>Unlike later typewriters of the mid to late 1950s which had an almost infinite number of tab stops, this Royal Quiet De Luxe is equipped with a bar on the back of the carriage with five individual stop mechanisms which can be set as desired by sliding them into place.</p>
  86. <p></p>
  87. <p>Just above the keyboard, almost functioning like the cummerbund of the typewriter&#8217;s tuxedo, sits a subtle band of chrome with two small, elegant but somehow substantial horizontal switches. The left switch manages the direction of the ribbon. On the opposite side is the traditional slider with red, blue and white for switching between the bottom (red) and top (blue) of the ribbon or choosing the stencil setting (white). </p>
  88. <p>The case has a clever hinge lock that can be actuated with one finger while sliding the top of the case right with respect to the bottom to remove it from the hinge posts. The case also has a convenient clip for the brush as well as for the manual and any other papers one might wish to take. Also mounted in the top of the case is a carriage protector meant to keep the carriage in place while in transit as the machine doesn&#8217;t have a carriage lock.</p>
  89. <p> </p>
  90. <p></p>
  91. <p>The bottom of the case has two black rails with four silver metal pins and black metal thumb locks. The pins fit into the bottom of the typewriter&#8217;s feet and the thumb locks slide easily to lock the typewriter into the case.</p>
  92. <p></p>
  93. <p></p>
  94. <h2>Typeface Sample</h2>
  95. <p>The pitch on this machine is 10 characters per inch (pica). The full platen is 94 characters wide with 6 spaces coming before the &#8216;0&#8217; marker.</p>
  96. <p></p>
  97. <h2>Sound</h2>
  98. <figure><figcaption>Here&#8217;s a sound sample of inserting an index card, writing a sentence, the bell, and a return on the 1949 Royal Quiet De Luxe:</figcaption><audio class="u-audio" src="https://boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Royal-De-Luxe-1949.mp3" controls="controls"><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span></audio></figure>
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  113. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  114. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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  116. <category><![CDATA[Dylan Thomas]]></category>
  117. <category><![CDATA[Patti Smith]]></category>
  118. <category><![CDATA[Taylor Swift]]></category>
  119. <category><![CDATA[The Tortured Poets Department]]></category>
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  126. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/23/typewriters-of-tortured-poets/"><img title="typewriters of tortured poets" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17139400511981079279570852028262.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1" alt="Typed white index card that reads: &quot;You left your typewriter at my Apartment straight from the tortured poets department I think some things I never say Like, &quot;Who uses typewriters anyway? ... I laughed in your face and said &#039;You&#039;re not Dylan Thomas, I&#039;m not Patti Smith.&quot; --Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department Dylan Thomas used an Imperial Good Companion. Patti Smith used a late 60s/early 70s Smith-Corona portable. --Chris Aldrich, tortured poet" width="750" height="500" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  127. </div>
  128. Tortured poets Dylan Thomas and Patti Smith both used typewriters. I still use several too.]]></description>
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  131. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/23/typewriters-of-tortured-poets/"><img title="typewriters of tortured poets" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17139400511981079279570852028262.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1" alt="Typed white index card that reads: &quot;You left your typewriter at my Apartment straight from the tortured poets department I think some things I never say Like, &quot;Who uses typewriters anyway? ... I laughed in your face and said &#039;You&#039;re not Dylan Thomas, I&#039;m not Patti Smith.&quot; --Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department Dylan Thomas used an Imperial Good Companion. Patti Smith used a late 60s/early 70s Smith-Corona portable. --Chris Aldrich, tortured poet" width="750" height="500" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
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  133. <p><img data-attachment-id="55822731" data-permalink="https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/23/typewriters-of-tortured-poets/wp-17139400511981079279570852028262/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17139400511981079279570852028262.jpg?fit=2000%2C1333&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2000,1333" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="typewriters of tortured poets" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17139400511981079279570852028262.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17139400511981079279570852028262.jpg?fit=660%2C440&amp;ssl=1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="u-photo aligncenter size-large wp-image-55822731" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17139400511981079279570852028262.jpg?resize=660%2C440&#038;ssl=1" alt="Typed white index card that reads: &quot;You left your typewriter at my Apartment // straight from the tortured poets department // I think some things I never say // Like, &quot;Who uses typewriters anyway?
  134. ... // I laughed in your face and said, // You're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith.&quot; //--Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department
  135. Dylan Thomas used an Imperial Good Companion. // Patti Smith used a late 60s/early 70s Smith-Corona portable. // --Chris Aldrich, tortured poet" width="660" height="440" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17139400511981079279570852028262.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w,  300w,  768w,  750w,  1536w,  2000w,  1320w" sizes="(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></p>
  136. <p>Tortured poets <a href="https://laviegraphite.blogspot.com/2012/07/good-companion.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dylan Thomas</a> and <a href="https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/pattismith.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patti Smith</a> both used typewriters. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/tag/typewriters,typecasts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I still use several too</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  155. <category><![CDATA[commonplace books]]></category>
  156. <category><![CDATA[George Eliot]]></category>
  157. <category><![CDATA[Middlemarch]]></category>
  158. <category><![CDATA[Zettelkasten]]></category>
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  161. <description><![CDATA[Given that George Eliot had her own commonplace book, it&#8217;s fascinating but not surprising to see a section of prose about note taking and indexing practices in Middlemarch (set in 1829 to 1832 and published in 1871-1872) literally as the romance story is just beginning to brew. [Naturally a romance with index cards at its &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/10/knowledge-management-practices-on-romantic-display-in-george-eliots-middlemarch/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Knowledge management practices on romantic display in George Eliot&#8217;s Middlemarch</span></a>]]></description>
  162. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Given that George Eliot had her own commonplace book, it&#8217;s fascinating but not surprising to see a section of prose about note taking and indexing practices in Middlemarch (set in 1829 to 1832 and published in 1871-1872) literally as the romance story is just beginning to brew. [Naturally a romance with index cards at its heart is just my cup of tea, <em>n&#8217;cest pas</em>?] Presently it&#8217;s not surprising to see the romance of an independent thinking woman stem out of an intellectual practice (dominated heavily by men at the time) that was fairly common in its day, but for it&#8217;s time such an incongruous juxtaposition may have been jarring to some readers.</p>
  163. <p>In chapter two Mr. Brooke, the uncle, asks for advice about arranging notes as he has tried pigeon holes as a method but has the common issue of multiple storage and can&#8217;t remember under which letter he&#8217;s filed his particular note. [At the time, many academics would employ secretarial staff to copy their note cards multiple times so that a note that needed to be classified under &#8220;hope&#8221; and &#8220;liberty&#8221;, as an example, could be filed under both. Individuals working privately without the support of an amanuensis or additional indexing techniques would have had more difficulty with filing material in the same manner Mr Brooke did. Digital note takers using platforms like Obsidian or Logseq don&#8217;t have to worry about such issues now.]</p>
  164. <p>Mr. Casaubon indicates that he uses pigeon-holes which was a popular method of filing, particularly in Britain where John Murray and the <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2023/07/24/vocabulary-notebooks-criminally-insane-asylum-patients-zettelkasten-the-thesaurus-linguae-latinae-and-digital-dictionaries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">editors of the Oxford English Dictionary were using a similar method</a> to build their dictionary at the time.</p>
  165. <p>Our heroine Dorothea Brooke mentions that she knows how to properly index papers so that they might be searched for and found later. She is likely aware of John Locke&#8217;s indexing method from 1685 (or in <a href="https://archive.org/details/13925922180LockeCommonplaceBook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">English in 1706</a>) and in the same passage—and almost the same breath—compares Mr. Casaubon&#8217;s appearance favorably to that of Locke as &#8220;one of the most distinguished-looking men I ever saw.&#8221;</p>
  166. <p>In some sense here, we should be reading the budding romance, not just as one based on beautiful appearance or one&#8217;s station or even class, but one of intellectual stature and equality. One wants a mate not only as distinguished and handsome as Locke, but one with the beauty of mind as well. Without the subtextual understanding of knowledge management during this time period, this crucial component of the romance would be missed though Eliot later hints at it by many other means. Still, in the opening blushes of love, it is there on prominent display.</p>
  167. <p>For those without their copies close at hand, here&#8217;s the excerpted passage:</p>
  168. <blockquote><p>
  169. &#8220;I made a great study of theology at one time,&#8221; said Mr Brooke, as if to explain the insight just manifested. &#8220;I know something of all schools. I knew Wilberforce in his best days. Do you know Wilberforce?<br />
  170. &#8220;Mr Casaubon said, &#8220;No.&#8221;<br />
  171. &#8220;Well, Wilberforce was perhaps not enough of a thinker; but if I went into Parliament, as I have been asked to do, I should sit on the independent bench, as Wilberforce did, and work at philanthropy.&#8221;<br />
  172. Mr Casaubon bowed, and observed that it was a wide field.<br />
  173. &#8220;Yes,&#8221; said Mr Brooke, with an easy smile, &#8220;but I have documents. I began a long while ago to collect documents. They want arranging, but when a question has struck me, I have written to somebody and got an answer. I have documents at my back. But now, how do you arrange your documents?&#8221;<br />
  174. &#8220;In pigeon-holes partly,&#8221; said Mr Casaubon, with rather a startled air of effort.<br />
  175. &#8220;Ah, pigeon-holes will not do. I have tried pigeon-holes, but everything getsmixed in pigeon-holes: I never know whether a paper is in A or Z.&#8221;<br />
  176. &#8220;I wish you would let me sort your papers for you, uncle,&#8221; said Dorothea. &#8220;I would letter them all, and then make a list of subjects under each letter.<br />
  177. &#8220;Mr Casaubon gravely smiled approval, and said to Mr Brooke, &#8220;You have an excellent secretary at hand, you perceive.&#8221;<br />
  178. &#8220;No, no,&#8221; said Mr Brooke, shaking his head; &#8220;I cannot let young ladies meddle with my documents. Young ladies are too flighty.<br />
  179. &#8220;Dorothea felt hurt. Mr Casaubon would think that her uncle had some special reason for delivering this opinion, whereas the remark lay in his mind as lightly as the broken wing of an insect among all the other fragments there, and a chance current had sent it alighting on her.<br />
  180. When the two girls were in the drawing-room alone, Celia said—<br />
  181. &#8220;How very ugly Mr Casaubon is!&#8221;<br />
  182. &#8220;Celia! He is one of the most distinguished-looking men I ever saw. He is remarkably like the portrait of Locke. He has the same deep eye-sockets.&#8221;
  183. </p></blockquote>
  184. <p>—George Eliot in <em>Middlemarch</em> (Norton Critical Edition, 2nd edition, Bert G. Hornback ed., 2000), Book I, Chapter 2, p13.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  196. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  197. <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 06:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
  198. <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
  199. <category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
  200. <category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
  201. <category><![CDATA[Photo]]></category>
  202. <category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
  203. <category><![CDATA[colander]]></category>
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  208. <div>
  209. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/08/eclipse-seen-via-colander/"><img title="Colander eclipse" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-1712642832183475226992415538589.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Shadow of a colander held up in the sunshine at the peak of the eclipse. The multi-pinhole camera shows a flower pattern of sun circles with a small bite taken out of each of them by the occlusion of the light by the moon all focused onto a concrete background." width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  210. </div>
  211. I saw hundreds of images of the eclipse today, but none remotely similar to mine. While thinking back on how I imaged the eclipse with my &#8220;pinhole colander camera&#8221;, I realize that so much of my life is informed not only by science, but the science of cooking. ]]></description>
  212. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  213. <div>
  214. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/08/eclipse-seen-via-colander/"><img title="Colander eclipse" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-1712642832183475226992415538589.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Shadow of a colander held up in the sunshine at the peak of the eclipse. The multi-pinhole camera shows a flower pattern of sun circles with a small bite taken out of each of them by the occlusion of the light by the moon all focused onto a concrete background." width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  215. </div>
  216. <p>I saw hundreds of images of the eclipse today, but none remotely similar to mine. While thinking back on how I imaged the eclipse with my &#8220;pinhole colander camera&#8221;, I realize that so much of my life is informed not only by science, but the science of cooking. </p>]]></content:encoded>
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  225. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/08/index-cards-on-sale/</link>
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  228. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  229. <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
  230. <category><![CDATA[Acquisition]]></category>
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  236.  
  237. <description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re an analog zettelkasten fan, I just bought a few bricks of 500 index cards for $6.08 each at my local Amazon Fresh. Most brands list for $12-$16 for this many; even Amazon.com is currently listing them for $10.50. Sadly it doesn&#8217;t match my all-time-best of $2.06. What&#8217;s your best? &#x1f5c3;&#xfe0f;&#x1f4dd;]]></description>
  238. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re an analog zettelkasten fan, I just bought a few bricks of 500 index cards for $6.08 each at my local Amazon Fresh. Most brands list for $12-$16 for this many; even <a href="https://amzn.to/3JbAofy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amazon.com is currently listing them for $10.50</a>. Sadly it doesn&#8217;t match my all-time-best of $2.06. What&#8217;s your best? &#x1f5c3;&#xfe0f;&#x1f4dd;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  247. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/06/small-bookends-as-follower-bock-replacements/</link>
  248. <comments>https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/06/small-bookends-as-follower-bock-replacements/#respond</comments>
  250. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  251. <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2024 17:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
  252. <category><![CDATA[Acquisition]]></category>
  253. <category><![CDATA[Social Stream]]></category>
  254. <category><![CDATA[bookends]]></category>
  255. <category><![CDATA[card index]]></category>
  256. <category><![CDATA[Daiso']]></category>
  257. <category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
  258. <category><![CDATA[follower blocks]]></category>
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  264. <div>
  265. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/06/small-bookends-as-follower-bock-replacements/"><img title="Daiso bookends" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17124251374573895705521746589973.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Two small black metal L-shaped bookends with their packaging card" width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  266. </div>
  267. I&#8217;d mentioned that my Steelcase card index came without the traditional card stops/follower blocks at the back of the drawers. Needing a solution for this, I&#8217;ve discovered that my local Daiso sells small, simple bookends for $1.75 for a pair and they&#8217;re the perfect size (7 x 8.9 x 9.2 cm) for the drawers. These &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/06/small-bookends-as-follower-bock-replacements/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>]]></description>
  268. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
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  270. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/04/06/small-bookends-as-follower-bock-replacements/"><img title="Daiso bookends" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wp-17124251374573895705521746589973.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Two small black metal L-shaped bookends with their packaging card" width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  271. </div>
  272. <p></p>
  273. <p>I&#8217;d mentioned that my <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/21/steelcase-8-drawer-steel-card-index-filing-cabinet-for-4-x-6-inch-cards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steelcase card index</a> came without the traditional card stops/follower blocks at the back of the drawers. Needing a solution for this, I&#8217;ve discovered that my local Daiso sells <a href="https://shop.daisosingapore.com.sg/products/4550480028989" target="_blank" rel="noopener">small, simple bookends</a> for $1.75 for a pair and they&#8217;re the perfect size (7 x 8.9 x 9.2 cm) for the drawers. These seem to do the trick nicely, though they do tend to slide within the metal drawers without any friction. Giving them small rubber feet or museum putty from the hardware store for a few cents more fixes this quickly.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  285. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  286. <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 22:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
  287. <category><![CDATA[Social Stream]]></category>
  288. <category><![CDATA[purple ink]]></category>
  289. <category><![CDATA[stationery]]></category>
  290. <category><![CDATA[typecasts]]></category>
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  295. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/27/55822288/"><img title="voting for purple typewriter ink" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17115794038541526907398893046777.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1" alt="White index card typed in purple ink with this message: I feel like I voted in another country, but really my vote was for purple ribbon in the typewriter." width="750" height="500" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  296. </div>
  297. ]]></description>
  298. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
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  300. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/27/55822288/"><img title="voting for purple typewriter ink" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17115794038541526907398893046777.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1" alt="White index card typed in purple ink with this message: I feel like I voted in another country, but really my vote was for purple ribbon in the typewriter." width="750" height="500" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  301. </div>
  302. <p></p>
  303. <p></p>]]></content:encoded>
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  312. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/27/remington-streamliner-type-sample/</link>
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  315. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  316. <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
  317. <category><![CDATA[Photo]]></category>
  318. <category><![CDATA[Social Stream]]></category>
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  320. <category><![CDATA[typewriter collecting]]></category>
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  324. <description><![CDATA[
  325. <div>
  326. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/27/remington-streamliner-type-sample/"><img title="frontal view of Remington Streamliner typewriter" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17111312241655228912227252137594.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Fontal view of a mint blue Remington Streamliner sitting on a glass table top." width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  327. </div>
  328. My new Remington Streamliner is now finally in solid fighting shape. Type on!]]></description>
  329. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  330. <div>
  331. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/27/remington-streamliner-type-sample/"><img title="frontal view of Remington Streamliner typewriter" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17111312241655228912227252137594.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Fontal view of a mint blue Remington Streamliner sitting on a glass table top." width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  332. </div>
  333. <p></p>
  334. <p></p>
  335. <p>My new <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/22/acquisition-remington-streamliner-196x-portable-typewriter-in-metallic-mint-blue/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Remington Streamliner</a> is now finally in solid fighting shape. Type on!</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  343. <title>Acquisition: Remington Streamliner 196X Portable Typewriter in Metallic Mint Blue</title>
  344. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/22/acquisition-remington-streamliner-196x-portable-typewriter-in-metallic-mint-blue/</link>
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  347. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  348. <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
  349. <category><![CDATA[Acquisition]]></category>
  350. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  351. <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
  352. <category><![CDATA[analog office equipment]]></category>
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  359. <div>
  360. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/22/acquisition-remington-streamliner-196x-portable-typewriter-in-metallic-mint-blue/"><img title="frontal view of Remington Streamliner typewriter" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17111312241655228912227252137594.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Fontal view of a mint blue Remington Streamliner sitting on a glass table top." width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  361. </div>
  362. On March 11, 2023, I&#8217;d gotten a nice deal on a Remington Streamline portable typewriter in a generally uncontested online auction. I was certainly taking a small chance on a typewriter only by a few photos and the label &#8220;untested&#8221;, but I couldn&#8217;t resist the mint blue color which seemed like it would be a &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/22/acquisition-remington-streamliner-196x-portable-typewriter-in-metallic-mint-blue/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Acquisition: Remington Streamliner 196X Portable Typewriter in Metallic Mint Blue</span></a>]]></description>
  363. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  364. <div>
  365. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/22/acquisition-remington-streamliner-196x-portable-typewriter-in-metallic-mint-blue/"><img title="frontal view of Remington Streamliner typewriter" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17111312241655228912227252137594.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Fontal view of a mint blue Remington Streamliner sitting on a glass table top." width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  366. </div>
  367. <p>On <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/11/55822025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 11, 2023</a>, I&#8217;d gotten a nice deal on a Remington Streamline portable typewriter in a generally uncontested online auction. I was certainly taking a small chance on a typewriter only by a few photos and the label &#8220;untested&#8221;, but I couldn&#8217;t resist the mint blue color which seemed like it would be a close match to my <a href="https://www.twsbi.com/products/twsbi-eco-t-mint-blue-fountain-pen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TWSBI Eco T fountain pen</a> and my <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2022/03/02/refinished-architects-table-from-the-general-fireproofing-co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">custom General Fireproofing 20 gauge steel desk</a>. </p>
  368. <p>Yesterday, the typewriter arrived, and today I took a short break to open it up and give it a short test drive. In addition to the fantastic news that the machine is in stunning shape, its color is about as perfect a match to the pen and the desk as one could ask!</p>
  369. <p></p>
  370. <p></p>
  371. <h2>Overall</h2>
  372. <p>The overall condition was beyond my dreams for this vintage and with some plastic portions. The typewriter only has a few signs of use and wear with some paint worn off at the corners of the back and on the right hand side where the platen knob meets the body. A bit of the &#8220;R&#8221; on the top Remington logo is worn off and seems to be thermally printed on, so I wouldn&#8217;t recommend heavy scrubbing, harsh abrasives, or caustic chemicals when cleaning the bodies of these for fear of removing the logo all together. These small flaws gives the machine some nice patina and the street cred of some reasonable use as a portable. There&#8217;s some small wear to the plastic hood where the two position return lever has rubbed against it. Otherwise it is in about as good a condition as one could hope. </p>
  373. <p>All the keys worked with some severe stickiness on the &#8220;L&#8221; key. The smallest of tweaks on the head of the typebar remedied the issue without resorting to cleaning. The margin release wasn&#8217;t operating properly, but only because an obvious and easily re-mounted tension wire had become unhooked.</p>
  374. <p>There is some minor grime and dust inside the body which could stand some cleaning, but it&#8217;s in great shape right out of the box. I&#8217;ll try to spend some time blowing it out and cleaning it up internally while I await some replacement ribbon.</p>
  375. <p>The typewriter itself is has a metal chassis which is permanently screwed into a slightly darker plastic green base. This base dovetails with the plastic lid to create a case with a rubber-like plastic handle. Sadly the lid of the case was badly cracked and splintered into a dozen or so pieces in shipping, so I&#8217;m going to consider the lid a total loss. I&#8217;ll have to fashion some type of cover to keep the dust (and more importantly the German shepherd fur) out of the internal mechanisms.</p>
  376. <p>On this model, the serial number is imprinted on to the black metal bottom chassis between the &#8220;U&#8221; and &#8220;J&#8221; keys when looking down at the typewriter from above. The serial number on my particular machine is AX 16 74 89. Sadly, the Typewriter Database doesn&#8217;t have serial numbers for this model or the late 60s or early 70s timespan in which these were made. One model in the database is dated to 1969 with a serial number starting with CX so it&#8217;s possible mine may be as early as &#8217;68 or &#8217;69 but sadly without better data, one can&#8217;t be sure.</p>
  377. <p>Richard Polt has a <a href="https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RemingtonPortables1960s.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Remington Streamliner manual for the 60s available</a>, and though it&#8217;s close in broad look and functionality, it&#8217;s obviously not for this specific model or year.</p>
  378. <p>Given the time period and the metallic mint paint, I do sort of wish this model also had <a href="https://youtu.be/W7YoxrKa4f0?si=91LCyR6Kkd21M6Ux&amp;t=44" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Positraction</a>, but then I suppose it would have needed to be produced by GM rather than Remington.</p>
  379. <p></p>
  380. <h2>Keys</h2>
  381. <p>The keys appear to be thin beige pieces of almost bone-like plastic floating in mid-air but have thicker plastic and metal bases which give them a nice action. There&#8217;s a standard back space (curved arrow on the left), a margin release (double arrow on the right), but surprisingly for the age, is missing a dedicated 1/! key. There is no built-in tab functionality.</p>
  382. <p></p>
  383. <h2>Ribbon</h2>
  384. <p>The machine has the typical larger Remington ribbon cores and this one included a dead, improperly seated ribbon on original metal rings. I swapped these out briefly for a new ribbon, though the plastic hub doesn&#8217;t seat as tightly as one would wish for the ribbon advance to work properly. I&#8217;ll get some new ribbon and handspool it onto the original cores and we should be off to the races. I&#8217;ll note that no metal ribbon covers, which had been standard on earlier models of this make, were present, though its probably just as likely that these were never included on their later models either for weight, functionality, or manufacturing cost reasons.</p>
  385. <p>I&#8217;m don&#8217;t see any switch or button for the spool reverse, but suspect that the built-in mechanical sensors will operate as expected for Remingtons of this era. If not, it&#8217;s easy enough to actuate the switch manually with the hood off.</p>
  386. <p>Also not available on this model is a switch for using two colored ribbons, so I&#8217;ll just have to be satisfied with a single color. </p>
  387. <p></p>
  388. <h2>Other Functionality</h2>
  389. <p> As a later portable, the machine is missing some of the additional niceties of heavier late 50s or early 60s desk models. It does have a &#8220;card finger&#8221;, though only on the left. The return arm has two positions and a simple friction fit operation—one for use and the other for storage.</p>
  390. <p>The machine has a carriage shift rather than a basket shift. The platen knobs are rather on the small side, and don&#8217;t have a typical button for variable line spacing. This line spacing functionality is built into the small switch on the left hand side for single or double spacing, but is labeled as &#8220;0&#8221; for small adjustments. It doesn&#8217;t appear to have a carriage lock of any sort, but does have margin stops and a satisfying bell.</p>
  391. <p>In general, this model is a no-frills portable meant for basic functional typing on the go.</p>
  392. <h2>Typeface Sample</h2>
  393. <p>The pitch on this machine is 10 characters per inch (pica). The full platen is 85 characters wide.</p>
  394. <p><del>Since I don&#8217;t have a properly inked/fitted ribbon for it yet, I&#8217;ll post a typeface sample at a later date. </del></p>
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  423. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  424. <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 16:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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  443. </div>
  444. Here&#8217;s a version of the timeline of some of the intellectual history I presented today at the PKM Summit in Utrecht. I&#8217;m happy to answer any questions, or if you&#8217;re impatient, you can also search my online digital repository of notes for any of the people or topics mentioned. It covers variations of personal knowledge &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/22/55822161/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>]]></description>
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  447. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/22/55822161/"><img title="Ramon Llull illuminated" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Ramon-Llull-illuminated.jpg?fit=750%2C450&ssl=1" alt="Breviculum" width="750" height="450" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  448. </div>
  449. <p><a href="https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1rQ89KUf9VBwFl9TxidtIYgDLiPch_Hv7x7bPf4HBlZA&amp;font=Default&amp;lang=en&amp;hash_bookmark=true&amp;initial_zoom=6&amp;height=800#event-personal-knowledge-management-timeline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here&#8217;s a version of the timeline of some of the intellectual history</a> I presented today at the <a href="https://pkmsummit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PKM Summit</a> in Utrecht. I&#8217;m happy to answer any questions, or if you&#8217;re impatient, you can also <a href="https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich" target="_blank" rel="noopener">search my online digital repository of notes for any of the people or topics mentioned</a>.</p>
  450. <p>It covers variations of personal knowledge management, commonplace books, zettelkasten, indexing, etc. I wish we&#8217;d had time for so much more, but I hope some of the ideas and examples are helpful in giving folks some perspective on what has gone before so that we might expand our own horizons.</p>
  451. <p>The color code of the slides (broadly):</p>
  452. <ul>
  453. <li>orange &#8211; intellectual history</li>
  454. <li>dark grey &#8211; memory, method of loci, memory palaces</li>
  455. <li>blue &#8211; commonplace books</li>
  456. <li>green &#8211; index cards, slips, zettelkasten traditions</li>
  457. <li>purple &#8211; orality</li>
  458. <li>light teal &#8211; dictionary compilations</li>
  459. <li>red &#8211; productivity methods</li>
  460. </ul>
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  473. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  474. <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 03:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
  475. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
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  484. </div>
  485. This book from 1908 by J. Kaiser seems like a fantastic instruction manual for how to use Obsidian, Logseq, Notion, Evernote, OneNote, and most other note taking tools for just about any application.]]></description>
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  488. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/13/55822047/"><img title="The Card System at the office" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/The-Card-System-at-the-office.png?fit=435%2C750&ssl=1" alt="Faded green cover of a book entitled The Card System at the Office by J. Kaiser." width="435" height="750" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  489. </div>
  490. <p>This <a href="https://archive.org/details/cardsystematoffi00kaisrich" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book from 1908</a> by J. Kaiser seems like a fantastic instruction manual for how to use Obsidian, Logseq, Notion, Evernote, OneNote, and most other note taking tools for just about any application.</p>
  491. <p></p>]]></content:encoded>
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  504. <pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 06:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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  513. <description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;ve bought yet another typewriter: a late 60s/early 70s Remington Streamliner. I bought it in part because it looks beautiful, but also (I&#8217;m not going to lie here) because it&#8217;s very similar in color to my mint blue TWSBI Eco-T fountain pen and my General Fireproofing Co. desk.  I swear this is my &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/11/55822025/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>]]></description>
  514. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think I&#8217;ve bought yet another typewriter: a late 60s/early 70s Remington Streamliner. I bought it in part because it looks beautiful, but also (I&#8217;m not going to lie here) because it&#8217;s very similar in color to my <a href="https://www.twsbi.com/products/twsbi-eco-t-mint-blue-fountain-pen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mint blue TWSBI Eco-T fountain pen</a> and my <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2022/03/02/refinished-architects-table-from-the-general-fireproofing-co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">General Fireproofing Co. desk</a>. </p>
  515. <p>I swear this is my last one for a while&#8230; at least until I find a reasonably priced and superb condition late 50s Olympia SM3 preferably in either green or maroon.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  523. <title>Acquisition: 1957 Remington Quiet-Riter with Miracle Tab Manual Typewriter</title>
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  527. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  528. <pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
  529. <category><![CDATA[Acquisition]]></category>
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  533. <category><![CDATA[Remington Quiet-Riter]]></category>
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  541. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/11/acquisition-1957-remington-quiet-riter-with-miracle-tab-manual-typewriter/"><img title="Remington Quiet-Riter front view" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17101787664746017271670423265143.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Front view of the Remington Quiet-Riter sitting on a library card catalog" width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  542. </div>
  543. In my recent typewriter collecting spree, I&#8217;ve received what may be the best of the group so far. Immaculately wrapped and boxed, the portable Remington Quiet-Riter arrived on my doorstep yesterday afternoon. With it&#8217;s incredibly smooth, quiet action and crisp elite typeface, I can tell it is going to be my daily driver for years &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/11/acquisition-1957-remington-quiet-riter-with-miracle-tab-manual-typewriter/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Acquisition: 1957 Remington Quiet-Riter with Miracle Tab Manual Typewriter</span></a>]]></description>
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  546. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/11/acquisition-1957-remington-quiet-riter-with-miracle-tab-manual-typewriter/"><img title="Remington Quiet-Riter front view" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17101787664746017271670423265143.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Front view of the Remington Quiet-Riter sitting on a library card catalog" width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  547. </div>
  548. <p>In my recent typewriter collecting spree, I&#8217;ve received what may be the best of the group so far. Immaculately wrapped and boxed, the portable Remington Quiet-Riter arrived on my doorstep yesterday afternoon. With it&#8217;s incredibly smooth, quiet action and crisp elite typeface, I can tell it is going to be my daily driver for years to come.</p>
  549. <h2>Overall Condition</h2>
  550. <p>Having purchased it &#8220;untested&#8221; as an auction item at bargain basement price, you&#8217;re never quite sure what to expect, you just pray for no major escapement damage and go from there. I fully expected to need to fix half a dozen bits and some heavy cleaning as I have with other machines. As it turned out, each part I began testing worked flawlessly and the machine is quite clean!</p>
  551. <p>In general the machine is in near mint condition. There is one tiny brown discoloration spot on the case, but, the case being brown, it&#8217;s not very obvious. Beyond this, the case looks like it just came off the factory floor. </p>
  552. <p>The machine was generally very clean and almost looks like it had been serviced and then not used since. There was some lint and dust on the bottom which wiped off easily and a quick blow out should clear the rest. There are one or two minor signs of wear to the powder coat on the front and a small bit of peeling on the bottom rear, but overall it&#8217;s been pretty well loved and probably not seen more than a few years of moderate use.</p>
  553. <p>Everything functioned as expected save two required adjustments relating to how the slugs strike the platen. The capital letters were striking a tad higher than the lower case, but the adjustment for the UC &#8220;on feet&#8221; screw on the bottom of the typewriter fixed that issue fairly quickly. There&#8217;s also two separate brackets each with two screws that will require adjustment for the caps lock to be properly aligned as well; I&#8217;ll take care of that later this week sometime. I notice one or two small screws that could use some fine tuning as well, but I&#8217;ll get to that shortly as well. Interestingly there is already a YouTube video for some of these adjustments for this exact year model should anyone need it. Additionally, <a href="https://munk.org/typecast/2013/07/30/typewriter-repair-101-adjusting-vertical-typeface-alignment-segmentbasket-shift-typewriters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Theodore Monk has some details for alternate makes/models</a>.</p>
  554. <div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" title="TypewriterMinutes - How To:  Make &quot;on feet&quot; and &quot;on motion&quot; typeface adjustment on 1957 Quiet-Riter" width="660" height="371" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OhxC6aocGk0?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
  555. <p>The serial number on the machine is QR3214352 which the <a href="https://typewriterdatabase.com/remington.42.typewriter-serial-number-database" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Typewriter Database dates</a> specifically to April 1957. This means that this machine will be 67 years old this coming Spring.</p>
  556. <figure id="attachment_55822003" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-55822003" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="55822003" data-permalink="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/11/acquisition-1957-remington-quiet-riter-with-miracle-tab-manual-typewriter/wp-17101715593923816828918446557881/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17101715593923816828918446557881.jpg?fit=2000%2C1500&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2000,1500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Remington Quiet-Riter serial number" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;The serial number on the Remington Quiet-Riter can be found stamped into the chassis on the right hand side of the machine on a piece of metal next to the ribbon spool underneath its hood.&lt;/p&gt;
  557. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17101715593923816828918446557881.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17101715593923816828918446557881.jpg?fit=660%2C495&amp;ssl=1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-55822003" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17101715593923816828918446557881.jpg?resize=660%2C495&#038;ssl=1" alt="The serial number QR3214352 stamped into the metal chassis." width="660" height="495" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17101715593923816828918446557881.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w,  300w,  768w,  750w,  1536w,  2000w,  1320w" sizes="(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-55822003" class="wp-caption-text">The serial number on the Remington Quiet-Riter can be found stamped into the chassis on the right hand side of the machine on a piece of metal next to the ribbon spool underneath its hood.</figcaption></figure>
  558. <h2>Keys</h2>
  559. <p>Unlike many early typewriters, this keyboard has a dedicated key for the &#8220;1&#8221;/&#8221;!&#8221;  as well as a dedicated caps lock key for the right hand (in addition to the usual one for the left). Also present is a special &#8220;Tab&#8221; key on the right hand side just below the margin release &#8220;M.R.&#8221; key.</p>
  560. <p></p>
  561. <h2>Other Functionality</h2>
  562. <p>In addition to some of the standard functionality, including tab settings which became common in the 1950s, this unit has an auto-reverse for the ribbon, 3 type select settings for finger pressure/action, and three line space selections. Richard Polt hosts versions of the <a href="https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RemingtonQR.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quiet-Riter manual (1955)</a> as well as a <a href="https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RemingtonPortablesPartsCatalogAN-QR-ER_1953.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">parts catalog (1953)</a> a <a href="https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/MechanicalInstructionsRemingtonPortableTypewriters1953.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">service manual (1953)</a>.</p>
  563. <p>Of particular note (and something I&#8217;ve never seen on a machine before) is a set of teeth on the platen which have a custom switch for fractional line spacing. This is useful for sub-script and super-script needs. It&#8217;s effectuated by pressing down on the line locating lever on the left side near the platen knob which then allows one to rotate the platen up or down the required amount to type the characters. When done, one switches the lever back to set the platen to the original line spacing. This would also have been useful on older machines for creating equal signs with two strikes of the hyphen, but isn&#8217;t needed on the Quiet-Riter which has a dedicated &#8220;=&#8221; key.</p>
  564. <p>While the unit came with an all black ribbon in usable shape, I chose to switch it out with a new blue/black combination. The Quiet-Riter has the larger custom 2cm core rings and spools (and this unit had the original metal rings and covers), so I had to manually remove the plastic cores from the newer ribbon and carefully insert them into the machine so that when the spool empties the mechanical sensor will trip and automatically reverse the ribbon. Of course, given the set up one could also wind their own replacement ribbon as seen here:</p>
  565. <div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" title="TypewriterMinutes - How To: Replace a Ribbon on Remington Quiet-Riter Typewriter" width="660" height="371" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iTFM54VKKc4?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
  566. <h2>Typeface Sample</h2>
  567. <p>The pitch on this machine is 12 characters per inch (elite). The full platen is 110 characters wide.</p>
  568. <p><img data-attachment-id="55821991" data-permalink="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/11/acquisition-1957-remington-quiet-riter-with-miracle-tab-manual-typewriter/wp-17101713174384487327656759093273/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17101713174384487327656759093273.jpg?fit=1999%2C1203&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1999,1203" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="1957 Remington Quiet-Riter Typeface Sample" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17101713174384487327656759093273.jpg?fit=300%2C181&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17101713174384487327656759093273.jpg?fit=660%2C397&amp;ssl=1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-55821991" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17101713174384487327656759093273.jpg?resize=660%2C397&#038;ssl=1" alt="Typed library card catalog card that reads:
  569. 1957 Remington Quiet-Riter Miracle Tab
  570. Serial number: QR 3214352
  571. Elite typeface; portable; platen 38mm
  572. 1234567890-= !&quot;#$%&amp;'()*+ qwertyuiop
  573. asdfghjkl;
  574. zxcvbnm,./ QWERTYUIOP ASDFGHJKL:@ ZXCVBNM,.?
  575. the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
  576. A VERY BAD QUACK MIGHT JINX ZIPPY FOWLS" width="660" height="397" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17101713174384487327656759093273.jpg?resize=1024%2C616&amp;ssl=1 1024w,  300w,  768w,  750w,  1536w,  1999w,  1320w" sizes="(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></p>
  577. <h2>Sound </h2>
  578. <figure><figcaption>Here&#8217;s a sound sample of inserting an index card, writing a sentence, and a return on the 1957 Remington Quiet-Riter.</figcaption><audio class="u-audio" src="https://boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1957-Remington-Quiet-riter-with-Miracle-Tab.mp3" controls="controls"><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span></audio></figure>
  579. <h2>Photo Gallery</h2>
  580. <p>         </p>
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  595. <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 19:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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  609. Having the best tools does you absolutely no good unless you&#8217;re going to use them. Collecting notebooks, fountain pens, or even typewriters is useless (other than their inherent beauty) without their use.]]></description>
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  614. <p></p>
  615. <p>Having the best tools does you absolutely no good unless you&#8217;re going to use them.</p>
  616. <p>Collecting notebooks, fountain pens, or even typewriters is useless (other than their inherent beauty) without their use.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  624. <title>Acquisition: 196X Smith-Corona (SCM) Galaxie Deluxe 10 &#8211; 6T2V Series Manual Typewriter</title>
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  629. <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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  643. I purchased this SCM typewriter through an online auction on 2024-03-02 and received it this morning on 2024-03-07 at 10:00 AM. The seller stated this was a 1969, but the Typewriter Database doesn&#8217;t seem to have serial number dating for this range of typewriters which were manufactured between 1966 and 1972. I doubt the seller &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/07/acquisition-196x-smith-corona-scm-galaxie-deluxe-10-6t2v-series-manual-typewriter/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Acquisition: 196X Smith-Corona (SCM) Galaxie Deluxe 10 &#8211; 6T2V Series Manual Typewriter</span></a>]]></description>
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  646. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/07/acquisition-196x-smith-corona-scm-galaxie-deluxe-10-6t2v-series-manual-typewriter/"><img title="Smith-Corona Galaxie Deluxe" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17098521482246682128633183833965.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="A view of a blue metal typewriter with a slightly yellowed plastic keyboard." width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
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  648. <p>I purchased this SCM typewriter through an online auction on 2024-03-02 and received it this morning on 2024-03-07 at 10:00 AM. The seller stated this was a 1969, but the Typewriter Database doesn&#8217;t seem to have serial number dating for this range of typewriters which were manufactured between 1966 and 1972. I doubt the seller was in possession of any details to support their 1969 claim.</p>
  649. <p>The machine didn&#8217;t come with its original manual, but Richard Polt&#8217;s site has a reasonably close one for the <a href="https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/SmithCoronaGalaxieManual.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Smith-Corona Galaxie line</a>. You have to love the atomic logo on the front and the description &#8220;World&#8217;s Finest Non-Electric Portable&#8221;, which means that at the time, electric machines must have begun taking over the market.</p>
  650. <p>Serial number: 6T2V-146176</p>
  651. <h2>Overall condition</h2>
  652. <p>The machine is in fairly reasonable shape with some scratches and imperfections. I&#8217;ll clean it up and post some additional photos shortly. I&#8217;ve already created a <a href="https://typewriterdatabase.com/196x-smith-corona-galaxie-deluxe.22342.typewriter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stub for it on the Typewriter Database</a>. One of the noticeable bits of &#8220;wear&#8221; is that what were surely white plastic trim and keys have yellowed with light exposure over the ages. </p>
  653. <p>There is some body wear and scratching commensurate with age, particularly where the return bar might hit the hood. It sadly didn&#8217;t come with a case.</p>
  654. <p>The good news is that it not only works, but works pretty well for the model and age and the $18.00 I paid for it. Just playing with it a bit this afternoon has already given me more joy than the cost of admission. I can&#8217;t wait until I&#8217;ve given it a complete overhaul.</p>
  655. <h2>Keys</h2>
  656. <p></p>
  657. <p>Space bar key is friction fit onto the keyboard and came off pretty easily when I flipped it over for some quick repairs. Fortunately it goes back on quickly.</p>
  658. <p>I think this is the first time I&#8217;ve had a typewriter with a dedicated &#8220;1&#8221; / &#8220;!&#8221; key rather than relying on the &#8220;l&#8221; or the usual apostrophe-back space-period combination for those to glyphs.</p>
  659. <p>It came with broken linkages on keys &#8220;1&#8221;, &#8220;T&#8221;, and &#8220;.&#8221;, but these were easily fixed although the &#8220;.&#8221; was blocked a bit by internal mechanisms. The &#8220;T&#8221; type-bar was slightly bent, but when back into alignment with a small tweak. All the keys work well though the &#8220;.&#8221; is a bit sticky, something that should clear itself up once fully cleaned. I suspect that these broken linkages were the reason the last owner gave up the typewriter. Overall, the typewriter has a pretty sharp action and a satisfying snap when typing. I&#8217;m including a sound file below.</p>
  660. <figure id="attachment_55821901" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-55821901" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-55821901" class="wp-caption-text">A simple &#8220;surgery&#8221; to fix some broken keys and we&#8217;re off to the races.</figcaption></figure>
  661. <p>For the fast typist that occasionally gets stuck with jammed keys, this model has a key unjammer (on the right side indicated with a key that has a down arrow over two opposing right and left slant marks). When pressed, it presumably pushes back on the U-bar which forces the typebars back. I&#8217;ll have to take a closer look at the mechanism when I open it up for a deep clean. This allows the typist the ability to keep their hands on the keys during a jam instead of needing to put their hand into the basket and manually fixing it. The key is roughly where the backspace/delete key on a computer keyboard would be, so it&#8217;s reasonably usable for the modern typist.</p>
  662. <p>The machine comes with a clever tab, tab set, and tab clear arrangement just above the top row of keys. With the rear carriage open, one can see a row of metal &#8220;teeth&#8221; which are either switched &#8220;on&#8221; or &#8220;off&#8221; to allow the tab mechanism to operate.</p>
  663. <p>The typewriter also has a fantastic &#8220;power-space&#8221; button to the right of the space bar that allows the carriage to quickly ratchet itself along. I&#8217;ve never had a machine that did this and can imagine using it regularly. I can&#8217;t wait to get into the internals to see how the mechanics of this work.</p>
  664. <h2>Other Features</h2>
  665. <p>The rubber feet are in reasonable shape and are still soft/functional. </p>
  666. <p></p>
  667. <p>The machine seems to be missing a plastic cover on the left side of the carriage, but this doesn&#8217;t affect functionality. The clear plastic line indicator which also holds the paper against the platen where the slugs hit the paper has sadly been broken off. There are still extant posts, so perhaps I can manufacture a replacement. One can align the top of the line retainer with lines on one&#8217;s paper and then advance to get proper type alignment in any case. This can be done by pushing in the black button in the center of the left platen knob to allow for variable line spacing</p>
  668. <p></p>
  669. <p>The unit came with its original metal ribbon spool, but otherwise didn&#8217;t have ribbon, so I&#8217;ve replaced it with a blue/green ribbon combination. Ribbon installation was very simple and straightforward. Of note here is that instead of lifting up and back as on many other typewriter models, the hood on this model has two internal arms which allow it to slide forward for easy access to the ribbon and type-basket.</p>
  670. <p></p>
  671. <p>The bell works! </p>
  672. <p>The center of the type-basket is marked with the phrase &#8220;Jeweled Escapement&#8221; underneath a crown which includes a small red jewel.</p>
  673. <p></p>
  674. <p>The machine comes with a page gage on the left side of the platen assembly with markings for several lengths of paper. This cleverly allows one to set the page length of paper one is using, insert the paper, and then as one gets to the bottom of a sheet, lines appear for 2 inches left, 1 inch left, and finally a red line to indicate that one is at the end of the page and will need to quit typing to change sheets. With careful management, this allows the typist to have a consistent page margin at the bottom of their sheets.</p>
  675. <p></p>
  676. <p>The Galaxie Deluxe has line spacing controls for single, double, and even triple spacing.</p>
  677. <p>At the base of the carriage near the right platen knob, there is a metal locking tab that when actuated will center the carriage and place it into a pseudo-locked position for storage or transportation in a case. It prevents the machine from typing or the carriage from moving to the left. Presumably it also disengages the escapement to prevent wear on the teeth during shipping, but I&#8217;ll have to check this when I&#8217;ve got it opened for cleaning.</p>
  678. <h2>Typeface Specimen</h2>
  679. <p>This typewriter uses a pica scale and the paper scale has markings up to 83 but will space to 84.</p>
  680. <p></p>
  681. <h2>Sound</h2>
  682. <figure><figcaption>Here&#8217;s a sound sample of inserting an index card, writing a sentence, and a return on the Galaxie Deluxe.</figcaption><audio class="u-audio" src="https://boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Smith-Corona-Galaxie-Deluxe-Typewriter.mp3" controls="controls"></audio></figure>
  683. <h2>Photo Gallery</h2>
  684.  
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  691. <img width="300" height="225" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17098522516661912284046384469176.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" type="rectangular" link="none" columns="2" size="medium" ids="55821908,55821904,55821905,55821909,55821910,55821912,55821911" orderby="post__in" include="55821908,55821904,55821905,55821909,55821910,55821912,55821911" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17098522516661912284046384469176.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w,  300w,  1024w,  768w,  750w,  1536w,  1320w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-attachment-id="55821911" data-permalink="https://boffosocko.com/wp-17098522516661912284046384469176/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17098522516661912284046384469176.jpg?fit=2000%2C1500&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2000,1500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Smith-Corona Galaxie Deluxe rear, opened" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;View of the rear of the typewriter with the rear carriage cover opened up to reveal the metal teeth that allow the tab mechanism to work.&lt;/p&gt;
  692. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17098522516661912284046384469176.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17098522516661912284046384469176.jpg?fit=660%2C495&amp;ssl=1" />
  693.  
  694. <h2>Hiding inside</h2>
  695. <p>One of my favorite parts of used goods is the hidden things one finds inside of them. Here I really only expected the typical pencil eraser bits, but I also found a tiny photo of a boy from what appears to be the early 1970s.</p>
  696. <p></p>
  697. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  698. <p>Type On!</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  711. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  712. <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 21:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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  726. The Europe PKM Summit 2024 coming up on March 22 &#8211; 23 looks like a who&#8217;s-who of the tools for thought crowd. I&#8217;m putting together a few ideas myself&#8230; https://pkmsummit.com/]]></description>
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  731. <p>The <a href="https://pkmsummit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Europe PKM Summit 2024</a> coming up on March 22 &#8211; 23 looks like a who&#8217;s-who of the tools for thought crowd. I&#8217;m putting together a few ideas myself&#8230; <a href="https://pkmsummit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">]]></content:encoded>
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  740. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/05/55821825/</link>
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  743. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  744. <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
  745. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  746. <category><![CDATA[Social Stream]]></category>
  747. <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
  748. <category><![CDATA[Brother]]></category>
  749. <category><![CDATA[Remington Rand]]></category>
  750. <category><![CDATA[Smith-Corona]]></category>
  751. <category><![CDATA[typecasts]]></category>
  752. <category><![CDATA[typewriter collecting]]></category>
  753. <category><![CDATA[typewriters]]></category>
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  756. <description><![CDATA[
  757. <div>
  758. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/05/55821825/"><img title="Typecast about typewriter acquisitions" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17096746058825204946930584428847.jpg?fit=750%2C511&ssl=1" alt="Typewritten index card that reads: Over the past few days I&#039;ve managed to purchase four typewriters at auction. They all look to be in workable condition, though they may need some cleaning and TLC. Posts pending as they arrive... * Brother Charger 11 * Smith-Corona Classic 12 * Smith-Corona Galaxie Deluxe * Remington Rand Quiet Riter" width="750" height="511" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  759. </div>
  760. How the typewriter collection is coming along.]]></description>
  761. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  762. <div>
  763. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/05/55821825/"><img title="Typecast about typewriter acquisitions" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17096746058825204946930584428847.jpg?fit=750%2C511&ssl=1" alt="Typewritten index card that reads: Over the past few days I&#039;ve managed to purchase four typewriters at auction. They all look to be in workable condition, though they may need some cleaning and TLC. Posts pending as they arrive... * Brother Charger 11 * Smith-Corona Classic 12 * Smith-Corona Galaxie Deluxe * Remington Rand Quiet Riter" width="750" height="511" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  764. </div>
  765. <p><img data-attachment-id="55821824" data-permalink="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/05/55821825/wp-17096746058825204946930584428847/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17096746058825204946930584428847.jpg?fit=1999%2C1361&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1999,1361" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Typecast about typewriter acquisitions" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17096746058825204946930584428847.jpg?fit=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17096746058825204946930584428847.jpg?fit=660%2C449&amp;ssl=1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="u-photo aligncenter wp-image-55821824 size-large" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17096746058825204946930584428847.jpg?resize=660%2C449&#038;ssl=1" alt="Typewritten index card that reads: Over the past few days I've managed to purchase four typewriters at auction. They all look to be in workable condition, though they may need some cleaning and TLC. Posts pending as they arrive...
  766. * Brother Charger 11  
  767. * Smith-Corona Classic 12  
  768. * Smith-Corona Galaxie Deluxe  
  769. * Remington Rand Quiet Riter" width="660" height="449" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-17096746058825204946930584428847.jpg?resize=1024%2C697&amp;ssl=1 1024w,  300w,  768w,  750w,  1536w,  1999w,  1320w" sizes="(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></p>
  770. <p>How the typewriter collection is coming along.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  779. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/03/55821788/</link>
  780. <comments>https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/03/55821788/#comments</comments>
  782. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  783. <pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 08:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
  784. <category><![CDATA[Social Stream]]></category>
  785. <category><![CDATA[Typewriter Database]]></category>
  786. <category><![CDATA[typewriters]]></category>
  787. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://boffosocko.com/?p=55821788</guid>
  788.  
  789. <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve added my 1948 Smith-Corona Clipper to the Typewriter Database https://typewriterdatabase.com/1948-smith-corona-clipper.22304.typewriter]]></description>
  790. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve added my <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2023/04/16/1948-smith-corona-clipper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1948 Smith-Corona Clipper</a> to the <a href="https://typewriterdatabase.com/1948-smith-corona-clipper.22304.typewriter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Typewriter Database </a></p>
  791. <p><a href="https://typewriterdatabase.com/1948-smith-corona-clipper.22304.typewriter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">]]></content:encoded>
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  799. <title></title>
  800. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/02/55821786/</link>
  801. <comments>https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/02/55821786/#comments</comments>
  803. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  804. <pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 07:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
  805. <category><![CDATA[Social Stream]]></category>
  806. <category><![CDATA[analog office equipment]]></category>
  807. <category><![CDATA[Smith-Corona]]></category>
  808. <category><![CDATA[typewriters]]></category>
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  810.  
  811. <description><![CDATA[Irked by the overinflated prices on Ebay for typewriters, I&#8217;ve been casting about for other sources of reasonably priced machines to purchase. Today I purchased two I saw at auction:  Smith-Corona Classic 12 in metallic green for $18.00 1969 Smith-Corona Galaxie Deluxe in steel blue for $23.00 Both appear to be in good shape and &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/03/02/55821786/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>]]></description>
  812. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Irked by the overinflated prices on Ebay for typewriters, I&#8217;ve been casting about for other sources of reasonably priced machines to purchase. Today I purchased two I saw at auction: </p>
  813. <ul>
  814. <li>Smith-Corona Classic 12 in metallic green for $18.00</li>
  815. <li>1969 Smith-Corona Galaxie Deluxe in steel blue for $23.00</li>
  816. </ul>
  817. <p>Both appear to be in good shape and functional though one is going to need some reasonable cleaning and repair of a few linkages. I can&#8217;t wait for them to ship to see what I&#8217;ve got. They both look like a lot of fun&#8230; </p>]]></content:encoded>
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  826. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/23/55821678/</link>
  827. <comments>https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/23/55821678/#comments</comments>
  829. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  830. <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
  831. <category><![CDATA[Furniture]]></category>
  832. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  833. <category><![CDATA[Social Stream]]></category>
  834. <category><![CDATA[card index filing cabinets]]></category>
  835. <category><![CDATA[Zettelkasten]]></category>
  836. <category><![CDATA[zettelkasten boxes]]></category>
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  838.  
  839. <description><![CDATA[On a quick front-of-the-index card calculation, I realize that with the recent Steelcase cabinet acquisition, I now have 8 boxes comprising 61 drawers and 103.25 feet of storage space for approximately 172,296 index cards. Having spent a total of $786.52 on them over the past year this comes out at about $12.89 per drawer, which &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/23/55821678/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>]]></description>
  840. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On a quick front-of-the-index card calculation, I realize that with the recent <a class="u-in-reply-to" href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/21/steelcase-8-drawer-steel-card-index-filing-cabinet-for-4-x-6-inch-cards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steelcase cabinet acquisition</a>, I now have 8 <a class="u-in-reply-to" href="https://boffosocko.com/research/zettelkasten-commonplace-books-and-note-taking-collection/#Boxes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boxes</a> comprising 61 drawers and 103.25 feet of storage space for approximately 172,296 index cards. Having spent a total of $786.52 on them over the past year this comes out at about <a class="u-in-reply-to" href="https://boffosocko.com/2023/09/17/market-analysis-of-library-card-catalogs-in-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$12.89 per drawer</a>, which is fantastically under the <a href="https://amzn.to/48sMVp5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$14-25 ubiquitous 11&#8243; cardboard boxes</a> for such a massive step up in quality and longevity. </p>]]></content:encoded>
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  848. <title></title>
  849. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/22/55821655/</link>
  850. <comments>https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/22/55821655/#respond</comments>
  852. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  853. <pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
  854. <category><![CDATA[Furniture]]></category>
  855. <category><![CDATA[Social Stream]]></category>
  856. <category><![CDATA[Steelcase]]></category>
  857. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://boffosocko.com/?p=55821655</guid>
  858.  
  859. <description><![CDATA[One of the drawers on the Steelcase card cabinet was sticking. After 10 minutes of comparison and troubleshooting, it turns out one of the rails on the chassis was bent enough to jam the ball bearing from rolling. Unsticking it and then a quick hammer to put the rail back in place has fixed it. ]]></description>
  860. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the drawers on the <a class="u-in-reply-to" href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/21/steelcase-8-drawer-steel-card-index-filing-cabinet-for-4-x-6-inch-cards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steelcase card cabinet</a> was sticking. After 10 minutes of comparison and troubleshooting, it turns out one of the rails on the chassis was bent enough to jam the ball bearing from rolling. Unsticking it and then a quick hammer to put the rail back in place has fixed it. </p>]]></content:encoded>
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  867. <item>
  868. <title>Steelcase 8 Drawer Steel Card Index Filing Cabinet for 4 x 6 inch cards</title>
  869. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/21/steelcase-8-drawer-steel-card-index-filing-cabinet-for-4-x-6-inch-cards/</link>
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  872. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  873. <pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
  874. <category><![CDATA[Acquisition]]></category>
  875. <category><![CDATA[Furniture]]></category>
  876. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  877. <category><![CDATA[20 gauge steel]]></category>
  878. <category><![CDATA[analog office]]></category>
  879. <category><![CDATA[analog office equipment]]></category>
  880. <category><![CDATA[atomic era furniture]]></category>
  881. <category><![CDATA[card index filing cabinets]]></category>
  882. <category><![CDATA[filing cabinets]]></category>
  883. <category><![CDATA[Steelcase]]></category>
  884. <category><![CDATA[vintage furniture]]></category>
  885. <category><![CDATA[Zettelkasten]]></category>
  886. <category><![CDATA[zettelkasten boxes]]></category>
  887. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://boffosocko.com/?p=55821642</guid>
  888.  
  889. <description><![CDATA[
  890. <div>
  891. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/21/steelcase-8-drawer-steel-card-index-filing-cabinet-for-4-x-6-inch-cards/"><img title="Steelcase logo on an index card filing cabinet" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/wp-17085551505044444611495511562309.jpg?fit=750%2C368&ssl=1" alt="Close up of the Steelcase nameplate and first drawer at the top of the filing cabinet." width="750" height="368" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  892. </div>
  893. Maybe I didn&#8217;t have enough filing space for index cards yet? Maybe it was because the price was too alluring to resist? Maybe it was because of the stunning black and grey powder coat? Maybe it was because I didn&#8217;t have any serious Steelcase in my atomic era furniture collection yet? Maybe it was the &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/21/steelcase-8-drawer-steel-card-index-filing-cabinet-for-4-x-6-inch-cards/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Steelcase 8 Drawer Steel Card Index Filing Cabinet for 4 x 6 inch cards</span></a>]]></description>
  894. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  895. <div>
  896. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/21/steelcase-8-drawer-steel-card-index-filing-cabinet-for-4-x-6-inch-cards/"><img title="Steelcase logo on an index card filing cabinet" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/wp-17085551505044444611495511562309.jpg?fit=750%2C368&ssl=1" alt="Close up of the Steelcase nameplate and first drawer at the top of the filing cabinet." width="750" height="368" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  897. </div>
  898. <p>Maybe I didn&#8217;t have enough filing space for index cards yet? Maybe it was because the price was too alluring to resist? Maybe it was because of the stunning black and grey powder coat? Maybe it was because I didn&#8217;t have any serious Steelcase in my <a href="https://boffosocko.com/tag/atomic-era-furniture/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">atomic era furniture collection</a> yet? Maybe it was the stunning art deco styling touches on the aluminum drawer handles and label frames? Regardless of the reason, the undeniable fact of the matter is that, as of yesterday, I&#8217;ve got another card index filing cabinet or zettelkasten. </p>
  899. <p>   </p>
  900. <p>This one is is a 20 gauge solid steel behemoth Steelcase in black and silver powder coat and it is in stunning condition with all the hardware. It stands 52 1/4 inches tall, is 14 7/8 inches wide, and 28 1/2 inches deep (without hardware). Each drawer had two rows of card storage space totaling 55 inches. With 8 drawers, this should easily hold 61,000 index cards. </p>
  901. <p></p>
  902. <p>Sadly, someone has removed all the card following blocks. I&#8217;ll keep an eye out for replacements, but I&#8217;m unlikely to find some originals, though I could probably also custom design my own. In the meanwhile I find that a nice heavy old fashioned glass or a cellophaned block of 500 index cards serve the same functionality. The drawer dimensions are custom made for 4 x 6 inch index cards, but A6 cards and Exacompta&#8217;s 100 x 150mm cards fit comfortably as well. </p>
  903. <p>Based on the styling, I&#8217;m guessing it dates from the 1940s to early 1960s, but there are no markings or indications, and it will take some research to see if I can pin down a more accurate date.</p>
  904. <p></p>
  905. <p>A few of the indexing label frames on the unit are upside down and one or two are loose, but that&#8217;s easily fixed by removing a screw and cover plate in the front of the drawer and making a quick adjustment. I&#8217;ve also got a few extra metal clips to fix the loose frames.</p>
  906. <p></p>
  907. <p>Much like my <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2022/08/08/55808119/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Singer card index</a>, this one has internal sliding metal chassis into which the individual drawers sit. This allows them to be easily slid out of the cabinet individually for use on my desk or away from the cabinet. The drawers come with built-in handles at the back of the drawer for making carrying them around as trays more comfortable. The drawers are 10.6 pounds each, each chassis is 4.6 pounds, and the cabinet itself is probably 120 pounds giving the entire assembly a curb weight of about 240 pounds. Given that 7,000 index cards weight 29.3 pounds, fully loaded the cabinet and cards would weigh almost 500 pounds.</p>
  908. <p>  </p>
  909. <p>Placed just behind my desk, I notice that the drawer width is just wide enough, that I can pull out the fourth drawer from the bottom and set my Smith-Corona Clipper on top of it. This makes for a lovely makeshift typing desk. The filing cabinet&#8217;s black powder coat is a pretty close match to that of the typewriter.</p>
  910. <p></p>
  911. <p>I&#8217;ve already moved the majority of my cards into it and plan to use it as my daily driver. This may mean that the Singer becomes overflow storage once I&#8217;m done refurbishing it. The <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2023/09/14/shaw-walker-two-drawer-quarter-sawn-wooden-card-index-file-for-4-x-6-cards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shaw-Walker box</a>, which was just becoming too full and taking up a lot of desk real estate, will find a life in the kitchen or by the bar as my recipe box.</p>
  912. <p>I&#8217;ve also noticed that some of my smaller 3 x 5&#8243; wooden card indexes sit quite comfortably into the empty drawers as a means of clearing off some desk space if I wish. Of course, the benefit of clearing off some desk space for that means that I can now remove individual drawers for working with large sections at a time.</p>
  913. <p></p>
  914. <p>This may be my last box acquisition for a while. Someone said if I were to add any more, I&#8217;ll have moved beyond hobbyist collector and into the realm of museum curator.</p>
  915. <p></p>
  916. <p>The best part of the size and shape of the drawers is that until its full of index cards, I can use some of the additional space for a variety of additional stationery storage including fountain pens, ink, stamps, stamp pads, pen rolls, pencils, colored pencils, tape, washi, typewriter ribbon, stencils etc. One of the drawers also already has a collection of 3.5 x 5.5 inch pocket notebooks (most are Field Notes) which are also easily archivable within it.</p>
  917. <p></p>
  918. <p></p>
  919. <p>&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  931. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  932. <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 02:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
  933. <category><![CDATA[Furniture]]></category>
  934. <category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category>
  935. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  936. <category><![CDATA[Social Stream]]></category>
  937. <category><![CDATA[atomic era furniture]]></category>
  938. <category><![CDATA[Steelcase]]></category>
  939. <category><![CDATA[Zettelkasten]]></category>
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  941.  
  942. <description><![CDATA[I may have just purchased a really hot, two-tone black and silver powder coated Steelcase card index with space for 60,000 cards&#8230;.]]></description>
  943. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I may have just purchased a really hot, two-tone black and silver powder coated Steelcase card index with space for 60,000 cards&#8230;.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  951. <title></title>
  952. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/14/55821533/</link>
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  955. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  956. <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
  957. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  958. <category><![CDATA[4 x 6" index cards]]></category>
  959. <category><![CDATA[index cards]]></category>
  960. <category><![CDATA[notebooks]]></category>
  961. <category><![CDATA[stationery]]></category>
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  963.  
  964. <description><![CDATA[
  965. <div>
  966. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/14/55821533/"><img title="notebooks vs index cards" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/wp-17079658797765401811746125886351.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Three notebooks stacked up next to three separate piles of 1,300 index cards." width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  967. </div>
  968. On average, the typical A5 sized notebook (Leuchtturm, Hobonichi, Stalogy, Moleskine, Midori, Clairefontaine, Apica, Kleid, etc. ranging from 192 to 368 pages) has an equivalent square footage of writing surface to the front (only) of about 420 4 x 6 inch index cards. On a cost basis, for the same amount of money, on average &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/14/55821533/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>]]></description>
  969. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  970. <div>
  971. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/14/55821533/"><img title="notebooks vs index cards" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/wp-17079658797765401811746125886351.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Three notebooks stacked up next to three separate piles of 1,300 index cards." width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  972. </div>
  973. <p></p>
  974. <p>On average, the typical A5 sized notebook (Leuchtturm, Hobonichi, Stalogy, Moleskine, Midori, Clairefontaine, Apica, Kleid, etc. ranging from 192 to 368 pages) has an equivalent square footage of writing surface to the front (only) of about 420 4 x 6 inch index cards. On a cost basis, for the same amount of money, on average one can buy 1,200 index cards for what they&#8217;re shelling out for equivalent notebooks.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  981. <item>
  982. <title>My Reading Practices for Book Club Selections</title>
  983. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/11/my-reading-practices-for-book-club-selections/</link>
  984. <comments>https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/11/my-reading-practices-for-book-club-selections/#respond</comments>
  986. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  987. <pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 22:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
  988. <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
  989. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  990. <category><![CDATA[reading practice]]></category>
  991. <category><![CDATA[reading practices]]></category>
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  993.  
  994. <description><![CDATA[As part of my reading process, particularly for book club related reading, I&#8217;ve lately settled on what seems to be a particularly productive method of reading for my needs. Generally I&#8217;ll pull up a short review or two to see what the topic broadly covers as well as to see how others are associating it &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/11/my-reading-practices-for-book-club-selections/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">My Reading Practices for Book Club Selections</span></a>]]></description>
  995. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As part of my reading process, particularly for book club related reading, I&#8217;ve lately settled on what seems to be a particularly productive method of reading for my needs. Generally I&#8217;ll pull up a short review or two to see what the topic broadly covers as well as to see how others are associating it to their own areas of work. I&#8217;ll usually do a quick inspectional flip through the table of contents and index to highlight any thing I think is particularly relevant to me. </p>
  996. <p>Following this, I&#8217;ll check out an audiobook copy of the text from my local library and listen to it at 1.5 to 2x speed. This allows me to highlight/bookmark some of the most interesting portions and gives me a good inspectional read as well as a solid first read through. I can then read either a physical copy of the book or a digital one and more thoroughly mark it up in an analytical read.</p>
  997. <p>Sometimes I don&#8217;t manage to get to the analytical portion until after some preliminary discussion for the book club, but the process allows me to be better prepared for our discussion which also helps me to be better informed for the analytical portion of the process. Obviously the more I&#8217;m able to do prior to the book club discussion, the better things can potentially go in terms of what I&#8217;m able to contribute with respect to the conversation I&#8217;ve had with the book to be able to share with others.</p>
  998. <p>When it&#8217;s not a particularly dense/interesting text, or it&#8217;s fiction, I can easily leave off a full analytical read and still manage to get most of what I feel the book has to offer.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  1006. <title>Book Club on Cataloging the World and Index, A History of the</title>
  1007. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/11/book-club-on-cataloging-the-world-and-index-a-history-of-the/</link>
  1008. <comments>https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/11/book-club-on-cataloging-the-world-and-index-a-history-of-the/#comments</comments>
  1010. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  1011. <pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 19:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
  1012. <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
  1013. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  1014. <category><![CDATA[Alex Wright]]></category>
  1015. <category><![CDATA[book clubs]]></category>
  1016. <category><![CDATA[commonplace books]]></category>
  1017. <category><![CDATA[Dennis Duncan]]></category>
  1018. <category><![CDATA[indices]]></category>
  1019. <category><![CDATA[intellectual history]]></category>
  1020. <category><![CDATA[Paul Otlet]]></category>
  1021. <category><![CDATA[Zettelkasten]]></category>
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  1023.  
  1024. <description><![CDATA[
  1025. <div>
  1026. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/11/book-club-on-cataloging-the-world-and-index-a-history-of-the/"><img title="Remington Rand zettelkasten with  decorative lemons" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/wp-1682376654948-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" alt="Angle down on a small, light brown wooden card index. The box has several manilla 1/5 cut 3x5&quot; card dividers inside along with some white index cards. Outside of the box on the table in front of it are a typewritten index card and a black metal Rotring 800 0.5mm mechanical pencil. Off to one side is a white ceramic bowl full of lemons." width="300" height="225" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  1027. </div>
  1028. Dan Allosso has been hosting a regular book club for a few years centered around sense making, note taking, and topics like economics, history, and anthropology. Our next iteration over the coming month or so will focus on two relatively recent books in the area of intellectual history and knowledge management: Wright, Alex. Cataloging the &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/11/book-club-on-cataloging-the-world-and-index-a-history-of-the/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Book Club on Cataloging the World and Index, A History of the</span></a>]]></description>
  1029. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  1030. <div>
  1031. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/11/book-club-on-cataloging-the-world-and-index-a-history-of-the/"><img title="Remington Rand zettelkasten with  decorative lemons" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/wp-1682376654948-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" alt="Angle down on a small, light brown wooden card index. The box has several manilla 1/5 cut 3x5&quot; card dividers inside along with some white index cards. Outside of the box on the table in front of it are a typewritten index card and a black metal Rotring 800 0.5mm mechanical pencil. Off to one side is a white ceramic bowl full of lemons." width="300" height="225" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  1032. </div>
  1033. <p>Dan Allosso has been hosting a regular book club for a few years centered around sense making, note taking, and topics like economics, history, and anthropology. Our next iteration over the coming month or so will focus on two relatively recent books in the area of intellectual history and knowledge management:</p>
  1034. <ul>
  1035. <li>Wright, Alex. <em><a href="https://amzn.to/4bAI3kq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age</a></em>. Oxford University Press, 2014. </li>
  1036. <li>Duncan, Dennis. <em><a href="https://amzn.to/3UBqGtL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age</a></em>. 1st Edition, W.W. Norton &amp; Company, Inc., 2022.</li>
  1037. </ul>
  1038. <p>This iteration of the book club might be fruitful for those interested in note taking, commonplacing, or zettelkasting. If you&#8217;re building or designing a note taking application or attempting to create one for yourself using either paper (notebooks, index cards) or digital tools like Obsidian, Logseq, Notion, Bear, TinderBox etc. having some background on the history and use of these sorts of tools for thought may give you some insight about how to best organize a simple, but sustainable digital practice for yourself.</p>
  1039. <p>The first session will be on <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/11/book-club-on-cataloging-the-world-and-index-a-history-of-the/#comment-430857" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saturday, February <del>17</del> 24, 2024</a> and recur weekly from 8:00 AM &#8211; 10:00 Pacific. Our meetings are usually very welcoming and casual conversations over Zoom with the optional beverage of your choice. Most attendees are inveterate note takers, so there&#8217;s sure to be discussion of application of the ideas to current practices.</p>
  1040. <p>To join and get access to the Zoom links and the shared Obsidian vault we use for notes and community communication, ping <a href="https://danallosso.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Allosso</a> with your email address. </p>
  1041. <p>Happy reading!</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  1049. <title></title>
  1050. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/04/55821315/</link>
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  1053. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  1054. <pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 07:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
  1055. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  1056. <category><![CDATA[Social Stream]]></category>
  1057. <category><![CDATA[Demco]]></category>
  1058. <category><![CDATA[generators]]></category>
  1059. <category><![CDATA[index cards]]></category>
  1060. <category><![CDATA[library card catalog cards]]></category>
  1061. <category><![CDATA[Zettelkasten]]></category>
  1062. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://boffosocko.com/?p=55821315</guid>
  1063.  
  1064. <description><![CDATA[
  1065. <div>
  1066. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/04/55821315/"><img title="Jokerzettel index card sample" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Jokerzettel.png?fit=361%2C221&ssl=1" alt="Yellowed library card catalog card with top red horizontal line and two vertical lines that split the card into three colums. Printed on the card are a red 9/8j on the left with the contents of Niklas Luhmann&#039;s jokerzettel card typed out. There are a few scribbles handwritten onto the card as well." width="361" height="221" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  1067. </div>
  1068. Surfing around with respect to library card catalogs, I ran across John Blyberg&#8216;s Library Card Generator this afternoon. Anyone who&#8217;s playing at the intersection of analog and digital zettelkasten is sure to love the possibilities here. Incidentally, if you&#8217;re still into the old-school library card catalog cards, Demco still sells the red ruled cards!]]></description>
  1069. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  1070. <div>
  1071. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/04/55821315/"><img title="Jokerzettel index card sample" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Jokerzettel.png?fit=361%2C221&ssl=1" alt="Yellowed library card catalog card with top red horizontal line and two vertical lines that split the card into three colums. Printed on the card are a red 9/8j on the left with the contents of Niklas Luhmann&#039;s jokerzettel card typed out. There are a few scribbles handwritten onto the card as well." width="361" height="221" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  1072. </div>
  1073. <p>Surfing around with respect to library card catalogs, I ran across <a href="https://www.blyberg.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Blyberg</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://www.blyberg.net/card-generator/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Library Card Generator</a> this afternoon. Anyone who&#8217;s playing at the intersection of analog and digital zettelkasten is sure to love the possibilities here.</p>
  1074. <p></p>
  1075. <p>Incidentally, if you&#8217;re still into the old-school library card catalog cards, Demco still sells the <a href="https://www.demco.com/demco-reg-permalife-catalog-cards" target="_blank" rel="noopener">red ruled cards</a>!</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  1083. <title></title>
  1084. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/02/55821271/</link>
  1085. <comments>https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/02/55821271/#comments</comments>
  1087. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  1088. <pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2024 02:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
  1089. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  1090. <category><![CDATA[Social Stream]]></category>
  1091. <category><![CDATA[zettelkasten memes]]></category>
  1092. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/02/55821271/</guid>
  1093.  
  1094. <description><![CDATA[
  1095. <div>
  1096. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/02/55821271/"><img title="" src="https://cdn.buyoly.com/bumper-crop-ask-me-about-my-rich-inner-life-MAIN-5c01e69048895-555.webp" alt="" width="555" height="478" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  1097. </div>
  1098. I saw a bumper sticker on a car this afternoon that read &#8220;Ask Me About My Rich Inner Life&#8221;. I think I&#8217;m going to have to buy one to put on my zettelkasten. &#x1f5c3;&#xfe0f;]]></description>
  1099. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  1100. <div>
  1101. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/02/02/55821271/"><img title="" src="https://cdn.buyoly.com/bumper-crop-ask-me-about-my-rich-inner-life-MAIN-5c01e69048895-555.webp" alt="" width="555" height="478" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  1102. </div>
  1103. <p>I saw a <a href="https://buyolympia.com/Item/bumper-crop-ask-me-about-my-rich-inner-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bumper sticker</a> on a car this afternoon that read &#8220;Ask Me About My Rich Inner Life&#8221;. I think I&#8217;m going to have to buy one to put on my zettelkasten. &#x1f5c3;&#xfe0f;</p>
  1104. <p></p>]]></content:encoded>
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  1112. <title>Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8217;s Zettelkasten</title>
  1113. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/24/rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-s-zettelkasten/</link>
  1114. <comments>https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/24/rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-s-zettelkasten/#comments</comments>
  1116. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  1117. <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 06:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
  1118. <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
  1119. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  1120. <category><![CDATA[card index for bible studies]]></category>
  1121. <category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category>
  1122. <category><![CDATA[Morehouse College]]></category>
  1123. <category><![CDATA[Zettelkasten]]></category>
  1124. <category><![CDATA[zettelkasten for academia]]></category>
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  1126.  
  1127. <description><![CDATA[It looks like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was using several Weis No. 35 card index boxes, of which a very similar version is still commercially available on Amazon from Globe-Weis/Pendaflex. I&#8217;ve tracked down where most of his card index is hiding at Morehouse College, but it doesn&#8217;t appear to be digitized in &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/24/rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-s-zettelkasten/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8217;s Zettelkasten</span></a>]]></description>
  1128. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It <a href="https://morehouse.edu/life/campus/martin-luther-king-jr-collection/overview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looks like</a> the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was using several Weis No. 35 card index boxes, of which <a href="https://amzn.to/3SdKb93" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a very similar version is still commercially available on Amazon</a> from Globe-Weis/Pendaflex.</p>
  1129. <p>I&#8217;ve tracked down where most of his card index is hiding at Morehouse College, but it doesn&#8217;t appear to be digitized in any fashion. Interested researchers can delve into the Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection: <a href="https://findingaids.auctr.edu/repositories/2/resources/159/collection_organization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Series 4: Research Notes, Collection Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0131i</a> </p>
  1130. <p>The following seems to be the bulk of where MLK&#8217;s zettelkasten is maintained, in particular:</p>
  1131. <ul>
  1132. <li><a href="https://findingaids.auctr.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/176973" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The General Subject file</a></li>
  1133. <li><a href="https://findingaids.auctr.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/176974" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Theologian&#8217;s Debate Box </a></li>
  1134. <li><a href="https://findingaids.auctr.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/176975" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Subject Index File</a></li>
  1135. <li><a href="https://findingaids.auctr.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/176976" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Author Index File </a></li>
  1136. </ul>
  1137. <p>Who wants to make a road trip to Atlanta to look at some of the most influential index cards of the 20th century?!!</p>
  1138. <p><a href="https://jillianhess.substack.com/p/martin-luther-king-jrs-organizational" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jillian Hess has recently written a few short notes on MLK&#8217;s nachlass</a> and note taking for those interested in some additional insight as well as an example of a quote on one of his 1953 note cards on Amos 5: 21-24 making it into his infamous speech &#8220;Normalcy, Never Again&#8221; (aka the &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; speech).</p>
  1139. <p>I frequently hear students ask if maintaining a zettelkasten for their studies is a worthwhile pursuit. Historically, it was one of the primary uses of the tool, and perhaps this example from one of the 20th century&#8217;s greatest orators&#8217; doctoral work at Boston University dating from roughly 1952-1955 will be inspiring. </p>]]></content:encoded>
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  1151. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  1152. <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2024 02:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
  1153. <category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
  1154. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  1155. <category><![CDATA[Photo]]></category>
  1156. <category><![CDATA[Social Stream]]></category>
  1157. <category><![CDATA[analog tools]]></category>
  1158. <category><![CDATA[meetups]]></category>
  1159. <category><![CDATA[micro.blog]]></category>
  1160. <category><![CDATA[stationery]]></category>
  1161. <category><![CDATA[typecasts]]></category>
  1162. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://boffosocko.com/?p=55820975</guid>
  1163.  
  1164. <description><![CDATA[
  1165. <div>
  1166. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/20/55820975/"><img title="Micro.blog Analog Tools meetup January 2024" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/wp-17058048210863124642036442954601.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1" alt="Typewritten index card that reads: &quot;Having my morning cup of coffee while attending this month&#039;s Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup was a singular spot of joy on a rainy and otherwise dreadful day. It was heartwarming to see so many different tools and methods at play among such a small group of kind people. I can&#039;t wait to see everyone&#039;s smiling faces and hear their advice and experience at next month&#039;s third Saturday meetup.&quot;" width="750" height="500" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  1167. </div>
  1168. Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup January 2024. &#x1f58a;&#xfe0f;&#x1f5c3;&#xfe0f;&#x1f4d3;&#x2615;]]></description>
  1169. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  1170. <div>
  1171. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/20/55820975/"><img title="Micro.blog Analog Tools meetup January 2024" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/wp-17058048210863124642036442954601.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1" alt="Typewritten index card that reads: &quot;Having my morning cup of coffee while attending this month&#039;s Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup was a singular spot of joy on a rainy and otherwise dreadful day. It was heartwarming to see so many different tools and methods at play among such a small group of kind people. I can&#039;t wait to see everyone&#039;s smiling faces and hear their advice and experience at next month&#039;s third Saturday meetup.&quot;" width="750" height="500" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  1172. </div>
  1173. <p></p>
  1174. <p>Micro.blog <a href="https://www.cygnoir.net/2024/01/07/microblog-analog-tools.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Analog Tools Meetup January 2024</a>. &#x1f58a;&#xfe0f;&#x1f5c3;&#xfe0f;&#x1f4d3;&#x2615;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  1187. <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 18:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
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  1194. <description><![CDATA[David L. Solin passed away this morning after several trying days in hospice care. We spent most of the day with him yesterday as he struggled to hold on, but his body ultimately gave out. I was just a few blocks from the nursing home going to see him when I got the call that &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/20/55820972/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>]]></description>
  1195. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David L. Solin passed away this morning after several trying days in hospice care. We spent most of the day with him yesterday as he struggled to hold on, but his body ultimately gave out.</p>
  1196. <p>I was just a few blocks from the nursing home going to see him when I got the call that he had passed away at 9:44 AM. After spending much of the last 4 years with severe dementia, its a relief that he&#8217;s left us, undoubtedly for a better place. </p>
  1197. <p>His memory will be a blessing.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  1205. <title>A quick survey of academics, teachers, and researchers blogging about note taking practices and zettelkasten-based methods</title>
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  1211. <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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  1219. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/18/note-taking-and-knowledge-management-resources-for-students/"><img title="Remington Rand Library Bureau Division card index" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/wp-1682376665482-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" alt="Table level angle of a small, light brown wooden card index. It has a fine metal relief placard that reads &quot;Remington Rand Library Bureau Div. made in USA&quot;. The box has several manilla 1/5 cut 3x5&quot; card dividers inside. Outside of the box on the table in front of it are a typewritten index card and a black metal Rotring 800 0.5mm mechanical pencil. In the background is a white ceramic bowl full of lemons." width="300" height="225" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  1220. </div>
  1221. Frequently newcomers to the note taking space or one of the many tools used within it are curious to see others who are using these methods and writing or blogging about them in public. Because many are students (often undergraduates, masters, or Ph.D.) looking for practical advice, tips, or even public examples which they might &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/18/note-taking-and-knowledge-management-resources-for-students/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A quick survey of academics, teachers, and researchers blogging about note taking practices and zettelkasten-based methods</span></a>]]></description>
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  1224. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/18/note-taking-and-knowledge-management-resources-for-students/"><img title="Remington Rand Library Bureau Division card index" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/wp-1682376665482-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" alt="Table level angle of a small, light brown wooden card index. It has a fine metal relief placard that reads &quot;Remington Rand Library Bureau Div. made in USA&quot;. The box has several manilla 1/5 cut 3x5&quot; card dividers inside. Outside of the box on the table in front of it are a typewritten index card and a black metal Rotring 800 0.5mm mechanical pencil. In the background is a white ceramic bowl full of lemons." width="300" height="225" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  1225. </div>
  1226. <p>Frequently newcomers to the note taking space or one of the many tools used within it are curious to see others who are using these methods and writing or blogging about them in public. Because many are students (often undergraduates, masters, or Ph.D.) looking for practical advice, tips, or even public examples which they might follow, I thought I&#8217;d put together a quick list focusing on academic use-cases from my own notes.</p>
  1227. <h2>Individuals</h2>
  1228. <p><strong>Dan Allosso</strong> is a history professor at Bemidji State University who has used Obsidian in his courses in the past. He frequently writes about reading, writing, and research process on his <a href="https://danallosso.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">Substack channels</a> or in videos archived on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@DrDanAllosso/playlists" rel="nofollow">his YouTube channel</a>. In addition to this, Dan has a <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2022/08/02/how-to-make-notes-and-write-a-handbook-by-dan-allosso-and-s-f-allosso/" rel="nofollow">book on note taking and writing</a> which focuses on using a card index or zettelkasten centric process. Much of his personal use is grounded both in index cards as well as Obsidian.</p>
  1229. <p><strong><a href="https://shawngraham.github.io/" rel="nofollow">Shawn Graham</a></strong> has both a <a href="https://electricarchaeology.ca/" rel="nofollow">blog</a> as well as a prior <a href="https://shawngraham.github.io/hist1900/" rel="nofollow">course on the history of the internet using Obsidian</a>. In the course materials he has compiled significant details and suggestions for setting up an Obsidian vault for students interested in using the tool.</p>
  1230. <p><strong><a href="https://kfitz.info/" rel="nofollow">Kathleen Fitzpatrick</a></strong> has a significant blog which covers a variety of topics centered around her work and research. Her current course <a href="https://peculiargenres.commons.msu.edu/" rel="nofollow">Peculiar Genres of Academic Writing (2024)</a> focuses on writing, note taking (including Zettelkasten) and encourages students to try out Obsidian, which she&#8217;s been using herself. A <a href="https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:44397/" rel="nofollow">syllabus for an earlier version of the course</a> includes some big name bloggers in academia whose sites might serve as examples of academic writing in the public. The syllabus also includes a section on being an academic blogger and creating platform as a public intellectual.</p>
  1231. <p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@morganeua" rel="nofollow">Morganeua</a></strong> is a Ph.D. candidate who has a popular<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@morganeua/playlists" rel="nofollow"> YouTube channel</a> on note taking within the academic setting (broadly using Obsidian, though she does touch on other tools from time to time).</p>
  1232. <p><strong><a href="https://boffosocko.com/" rel="nofollow">Chris Aldrich</a></strong> is independent research who does work at the intersection of intellectual history and note taking methods and practices. He&#8217;s got an active website along with a <a href="https://boffosocko.com/research/zettelkasten-commonplace-books-and-note-taking-collection/" rel="nofollow">large collection of note taking, zettelkasten, commonplace books, and sense-making related articles</a>. His personal practice is a hybrid one using both analog and digital methods including Obsidian, Hypothes.is, and his own website.</p>
  1233. <p><strong><a href="https://writing.bobdoto.computer/" rel="nofollow">Bob Doto</a></strong> is a teacher and independent researcher who focuses on <a href="https://writing.bobdoto.computer/zettelkasten/" rel="nofollow">Luhmann-artig zettelkasten practice</a> and writing. He uses Obsidian and also operates a private Discord server focused on general Zettelkasten practice.</p>
  1234. <p><strong>Manfred Kuehn</strong>, a professor of philosophy at Boston University, had an influential blog on note taking practices and culture from 2007 to 2018 on Blogspot. While he&#8217;s taken the site down, the majority of his work there can be found on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/sitemap/ rel="nofollow">the Internet Archive</a>.</p>
  1235. <p><strong><a href="https://andymatuschak.org/" rel="nofollow">Andy Matuschak</a></strong> is an independent researcher who is working at the intersection of learning, knowledge management, reading and related topics. He&#8217;s got a <a href="https://www.patreon.com/quantumcountry" rel="nofollow">Patreon</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@andy_matuschak/featured" rel="nofollow">YouTube Channel</a> and a self- built <a href="https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes" rel="nofollow">public card-based note collection</a>.</p>
  1236. <h2>Broader community-based efforts</h2>
  1237. <p>Here are some tool-specific as well as tool-agnostic web-based fora, chat rooms, etc. which are focused on academic-related note taking and will have a variety of people to follow and interact with.</p>
  1238. <p>Obsidian runs a large and diverse <a href="https://discord.gg/obsidianmd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Discord server</a>. In addition to many others, they have channels for <a href="https://forum.zettelkasten.de/search?Search=%23Academia&amp;Mode=like">#Academia</a> and <a href="https://forum.zettelkasten.de/search?Search=%23Academic-tools&amp;Mode=like">#Academic-tools</a> as well as <a href="https://forum.zettelkasten.de/search?Search=%23Knowledge-management&amp;Mode=like">#Knowledge-management</a> and <a href="https://forum.zettelkasten.de/search?Search=%23zettelkasten&amp;Mode=like">#zettelkasten</a>.</p>
  1239. <p>Tinderbox hosts regular meetups (see their <a href="https://forum.eastgate.com/latest" rel="nofollow">forum</a> for details on upcoming events and how to join). While their events are often product-focused (ways to use it, Q&amp;A, etc.), frequently they&#8217;ve got invited speakers who talk about their work, processes, and methods of working. Past recorded sessions can be found on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6MVDtSfcKxehUZ487xxAqbqi_y09Q72A" rel="nofollow">YouTube</a>. While this is tool-specific, much of what is discussed in their meetups can broadly be applied to any tool set. Because Tinderbox has been around since the early 00s and heavily focused on academic use, the majority of participants in the community are highly tech literate academics whose age skews to the over 40 set.</p>
  1240. <p>A variety of Zettelkasten practitioners including several current and retired academicians using a variety of platforms can be found at <a href="https://forum.zettelkasten.de/" rel="nofollow">
  1241. <p>Boris Mann and others held <a href="https://lu.ma/toolsforthought" rel="nofollow">Tools for Thought meetups</a> which had been regularly held through 2023. They may have some interesting archived material for perusal on both theory, practice, and a wide variety of tools.</p>
  1242. <h2>Others?</h2>
  1243. <p>I&#8217;ve tried to quickly &#8220;tip out&#8221; my own zettelkasten on this topic with a focus on larger repositories of active publicly available web-based material with an academic use-case focus. Surely there is a much wider variety of people and resources not listed here, but it should be a reasonable primer for beginners. Feel free to reply with additional suggestions and resources of which you may be aware.</p>
  1244. <h2>Useful books, articles, and miscellaneous manuals</h2>
  1245. <p>While many may come to the space by way of Sönke Ahrens&#8217; 2017 book, we should all acknowledge that many of these methods go back centuries, so there is obviously lots of prior art to look at for hints and tricks. There is enough that for many students, you may be able to find a note taking guide written by a famous luminary in your own chosen field of study (especially if you&#8217;re in the humanities and studying history, anthropology, or sociology.)</p>
  1246. <h3>Recommended reading</h3>
  1247. <p>To help students get up to speed most quickly, based on my own experience and reading I often recommend reading the following (roughly in order) along with one or more of the note taking manuals below (of which I personally most appreciate Umberto Eco, Gerald Weinberg, Jacques Goutor, John Locke, Dan Allosso and S.F. Allosso, and Antonin Sertillanges.)</p>
  1248. <div class="csl-bib-body">
  1249. <ul>
  1250. <li class="csl-entry">Adler, Mortimer J. “How to Mark a Book.” <i>Saturday Review of Literature</i>, July 6, 1940. <a href="https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1940jul06-00011/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  1251. <li class="csl-entry">Adler, Mortimer J., and Charles Van Doren. <i>How to Read a Book: The Classical Guide to Intelligent Reading</i>. Revised and Updated ed. edition. 1940. Reprint, Touchstone, 2011.</li>
  1252. <li class="csl-entry">Thomas, Keith. “Diary: Working Methods.” <i>London Review of Books</i>, June 10, 2010. <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n11/keith-thomas/diary">
  1253. <li>Mills, C. Wright. “On Intellectual Craftsmanship (1952).” Society 17, no. 2 (January 1, 1980): 63–70. <a class="status-link unhandled-link" title="https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02700062" href="https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02700062" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1007/BF02700062</span></a></li>
  1254. <li>“They Say / I Say”: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 3rd ed. 2006. Reprint, New York: W. W. Norton &amp; Company, 2014.</li>
  1255. </ul>
  1256. </div>
  1257. <h3>Bibliography of Note Taking Manuals</h3>
  1258. <ul>
  1259. <li>Adams, Martin. Atomic Note-Taking: The Ultimate Zettelkasten Guide. 1st ed. Meda Technologies Ltd., 2023. <a href="https://www.atomicworkflows.com/books/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  1260. <li>Ahrens, Sönke. <a href="https://amzn.to/47BXENv" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers</a>. Create Space, 2017.</li>
  1261. <li>Allosso, Dan, and S. F. Allosso. <a href="https://amzn.to/3O7kg1D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Make Notes and Write</a>. Minnesota State Pressbooks, 2022.</li>
  1262. <li>Barzun, Jacques. <a href="http://archive.org/details/modernresearcher00barz_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Modern Researcher</a>. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992.</li>
  1263. <li>Bernstein, Mark. <a href="https://amzn.to/3S6T6ZO" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tinderbox: The Tinderbox Way</a>. 3rd ed. Watertown, MA: Eastgate Systems, Inc., 2017. </li>
  1264. <li>Blair, Ann M. “Manuals on Note-Taking (Ars Excerpendi).” In Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World. Brill, May 7, 2014. <a href="https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-the-neo-latin-world/manuals-on-note-taking-ars-excerpendi-B9789004271029_0058" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  1265. <li>Chavigny, Paul Marie Victor. Organisation du travail intellectuel, recettes pratiques à l’usage des étudiants de toutes les facultés et de tous les travailleurs. Paris: Delagrave, 1918. <a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011209555" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  1266. <li>DeCarlo, Matthew, Cory Cummings, and Kate Agnelli. Graduate Research Methods in Social Work. Open Social Work, 2021. <a href="https://doi.org/10.21061/msw-research" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  1267. <li>Dow, Earle Wilbur. Principles of a Note-System for Historical Studies. New York: Century Company, 1924.</li>
  1268. <li>Eco, Umberto. <a href="https://amzn.to/428Ggij" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Write a Thesis</a>. Translated by Caterina Mongiat Farina and Geoff Farina. 1977. Reprint, Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 2015. </li>
  1269. <li>Erasmus, Desiderius. <a href="https://amzn.to/3Sn8v9H" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style</a>. edited by Craig R. Thompson, translated by Betty I. Knott, 279–660. University of Toronto Press, 1978.</li>
  1270. <li>Erasmus, Desiderius, Herbert David Rix, and Donald B. King. <a href="https://amzn.to/48GnzoI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On Copia of Words and Ideas (De Utraque Verborum Ac Rerum Copia)</a>. Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation, 12.0. Marquette University Press, 2007.</li>
  1271. <li>Fry, Ron. Write Papers. 2nd ed. Ron Fry’s How to Study Program. Hawthorne, NJ: Career Pr Inc, 1994.</li>
  1272. <li>Gessner, Konrad. Pandectarum Sive Partitionum Universalium. 1st Edition. Zurich: Christoph Froschauer, 1548.</li>
  1273. <li>Gottschalk, Louis Reichenthal. <a href="https://amzn.to/4aZzhfL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Understanding History: A Primer of Historical Method</a>. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. </li>
  1274. <li>Goutor, Jacques. <a href="http://archive.org/details/cardfilesystemof0000gout" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Card-File System of Note-Taking</a>. Approaching Ontario’s Past 3. Toronto: Ontario Historical Society, 1980.</li>
  1275. <li>Heyde, Johannes Erich. Technik des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens; eine Anleitung, besonders für Studierende. 8., Umgearb. Aufl. 1931. Reprint, Berlin: R. Kiepert, 1951.</li>
  1276. <li>Hockett, Homer C. Introduction to Research in American History. New York: Macmillan, 1931.</li>
  1277. <li>Kadavy, David. <a href="https://amzn.to/422LJay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Zettelkasten: Principles, Methods, &amp; Examples</a>. Kadavy, Inc., 2021.</li>
  1278. <li>Kuntze, Friedrich. Die Technik der geistigen Arbeit (The technique of mental work). Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1923.</li>
  1279. <li>Langlois, Charles Victor, and Charles Seignobos. <a href="http://archive.org/details/cu31924027810286" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introduction to the Study of History</a>. Translated by George Godfrey Berry. First. New York: Henry Holt and company, 1898.</li>
  1280. <li>———. <a href="http://archive.org/details/introductiontos00langgoog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introduction to the study of history</a>. London, Cass, 1966.</li>
  1281. <li>Leicester, Mal, and Denise Taylor. Take Great Notes. 1st edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019.</li>
  1282. <li>Locke, John. <a href="https://archive.org/details/gu_newmethodmaki00lock/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books</a>. 1685. Reprint, London, 1706.</li>
  1283. <li>Maxfield, Ezra Kempton. “Suggestions for Note Taking.” Delaware College Bulletin 6, no. 4 (December 1910).</li>
  1284. <li>Mei, Jennifer. <a href="http://archive.org/details/refiningreadingw0000meij" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Refining, Reading, Writing : Includes 2009 MLA Update Card</a>. Nelson Canada, 2007.</li>
  1285. <li>Porstmann, Walter. Kartei &#8211; Kunde: das Handbuch der Karteitechnik. Stuttgart: Verlag für Wirtschaft und Verkehr, 1928.</li>
  1286. <li>Range, Ellen. Take Note! Taking and Organizing Notes. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Cherry Lake Publishing, 2014.</li>
  1287. <li>Sanders, Chauncey. An Introduction to Research in English Literary History. With a Chapter on Research in Folklore. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952.</li>
  1288. <li>Schrag, Zachary M. The Princeton Guide to Historical Research. Princeton University Press, 2021. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1pdrrc9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  1289. <li>Sertillanges, Antonin Gilbert. La vie intellectuelle; son esprit, ses conditions, ses méthodes. Paris, Éditions de la Revue des jeunes, 1921. <a href="http://archive.org/details/lavieintellectue00sert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  1290. <li>Sertillanges, Antonin Gilbert, and Mary Ryan. The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods. First English Edition, Fifth printing. 1921. Reprint, Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1960. <a href="http://archive.org/details/a.d.sertillangestheintellectuallife" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  1291. <li>Seward, Samuel Swayze. Note-Taking. Boston, Allyn and Bacon, 1910. <a href="http://archive.org/details/cu31924012997627" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  1292. <li>Shafer, Robert Jones. A Guide to Historical Method. Revised edition. 1969. Reprint, Homewood, IL: Dorsey Press, 1974.</li>
  1293. <li>Tharp, Twyla. <a href="https://amzn.to/3O5muOY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life</a>. Simon &amp; Schuster, 2006.</li>
  1294. <li>Tietze, Christian. “Getting Started: Zettelkasten Method.” Blog/forum. Zettelkasten, 2015. <a href="https://zettelkasten.de/posts/overview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  1295. <li>Vincentius Placcius. De arte excerpendi. Vom Gelahrten Buchhalten Liber singularis, quo genera et praecepta excerpendi&#8230; Gottfried Liebezeit, 1689. <a href="http://archive.org/details/bub_gb_IgMVAAAAQAAJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  1296. <li>Watanabe, Shoichi, and 渡部昇一. 知的生活の方法 (A Method of Intellectual Life). 講談社, 1976.</li>
  1297. <li>Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. Methods of Social Study. London; New York: Longmans, Green &amp; Co., 1932. <a href="http://archive.org/details/b31357891" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  1298. <li>Weinberg, Gerald M. Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method. New York, N.Y: Dorset House, 2005.</li>
  1299. <li>ロンフライ, and Ron Fry. アメリカ式論文の書き方 (How to Write an American Style Essay). Translated by 酒井一夫. Tokyo Tosho, 1994.</li>
  1300. </ul>]]></content:encoded>
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  1324. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congratulations to <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristophAdami" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christoph Adami</a> (@ChristophAdami) on release day for <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691241142/the-evolution-of-biological-information" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Evolution of Biological Information: How Evolution Creates Complexity, from Viruses to Brains</em></a>! I&#8217;m awaiting the post for my own hardcover copy. </p>
  1325. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1326. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Good News! My book is still appearing Jan 16, 2024, but now you can get 35% off using the code below! <a href="https://t.co/nfDSmj5Rzz">pic.twitter.com/nfDSmj5Rzz</a></p>
  1327. <p>— Chris Adami (@ChristophAdami) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristophAdami/status/1726428343984144587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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  1340. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  1341. <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 21:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
  1342. <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
  1343. <category><![CDATA[John McPhee]]></category>
  1344. <category><![CDATA[writing advice]]></category>
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  1346.  
  1347. <description><![CDATA[One of my favorite but secreted and very subtle bits of writing advice can be found in James Somers&#8217; blogpost &#8220;You’re probably using the wrong dictionary&#8220;, which gains advantage by prudent counsel from John McPhee&#8217;s &#8220;Draft No. 4&#8221; (The New Yorker, April 29, 2013) along with some useful technology hacks.]]></description>
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  1349. <section class="h-cite response p-in-reply-to ">
  1350. <header>
  1351. <span class="kind-display-text">Replied to</span> <a href="https://kfitz.info/eng818/" class="p-name u-url">&#x23;ENG818</a> by <span class="h-card p-author">Kathleen Fitzgerald</span><em> (<span class="p-publication">kfitz</span>)</em></header>
  1352. <blockquote class="e-summary">I’m a huge advice writing nerd.</blockquote></section>
  1353.  
  1354. <p>One of my favorite but secreted and very subtle bits of writing advice can be found in James Somers&#8217; blogpost &#8220;<a href="https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">You’re probably using the wrong dictionary</a>&#8220;, which gains advantage by prudent counsel from John McPhee&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/29/draft-no-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Draft No. 4</a>&#8221; (The New Yorker, April 29, 2013) along with some useful technology hacks.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  1366. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  1367. <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2024 01:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
  1368. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  1369. <category><![CDATA[Photo]]></category>
  1370. <category><![CDATA[Social Stream]]></category>
  1371. <category><![CDATA[lumos]]></category>
  1372. <category><![CDATA[pens]]></category>
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  1376. <description><![CDATA[
  1377. <div>
  1378. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/12/55820826/"><img title="Pilot pen for writing in the dark" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/wp-17051104983104363474746563683304.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Taken in a dark room, an index card is partially illuminated from the tip of a ballpoint pen which has an embedded LED light. Handwritten on the card is the title &quot;Nota Lumos&quot; with the phrase &quot;A nice new pen for reading in the dark and taking notes.&quot;" width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  1379. </div>
  1380. I picked up a pair of Pilot Pens for reading and writing notes in the dark on late winter nights. &#x1f58a;&#xfe0f;&#x1f5c3;&#xfe0f;&#x1f4da;]]></description>
  1381. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  1382. <div>
  1383. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/12/55820826/"><img title="Pilot pen for writing in the dark" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/wp-17051104983104363474746563683304.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" alt="Taken in a dark room, an index card is partially illuminated from the tip of a ballpoint pen which has an embedded LED light. Handwritten on the card is the title &quot;Nota Lumos&quot; with the phrase &quot;A nice new pen for reading in the dark and taking notes.&quot;" width="750" height="563" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  1384. </div>
  1385. <p></p>
  1386. <p>I picked up a pair of <a href="https://amzn.to/4aWjqyA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pilot Pens</a> for reading and writing notes in the dark on late winter nights. &#x1f58a;&#xfe0f;&#x1f5c3;&#xfe0f;&#x1f4da;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  1394. <title>On Cohesion and Coherence of the Zettelkasten: Where Does the Work Reside?</title>
  1395. <link>https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/11/on-cohesion-and-coherence-of-the-zettelkasten-where-does-the-work-reside/</link>
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  1398. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  1399. <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 22:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
  1400. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  1401. <category><![CDATA[Reply]]></category>
  1402. <category><![CDATA[Chris Rock]]></category>
  1403. <category><![CDATA[Eminem]]></category>
  1404. <category><![CDATA[extended mind]]></category>
  1405. <category><![CDATA[Gilles Deleuze]]></category>
  1406. <category><![CDATA[Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten]]></category>
  1407. <category><![CDATA[S.D. Goitein]]></category>
  1408. <category><![CDATA[Zettelkasten]]></category>
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  1411. <description><![CDATA[
  1412. <div>
  1413. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/11/on-cohesion-and-coherence-of-the-zettelkasten-where-does-the-work-reside/"><img title="Where is knowledge bred Willy Wonka" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Where-is-knowledge-bred-Willy-Wonka.jpg?fit=750%2C421&ssl=1" alt="Photo still from Willy Wonka (Warner Bros.,, 1971) with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in the center looking away wistfully and Grandpa Joe and Mike TV&#039;s mom flanking him with quizzical looks. Underneath is the meme quote: &quot;Where is knowledge bred? In the box or in the head?&quot;" width="750" height="421" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  1414. </div>
  1415. While discussing Chris Rock&#8217;s zettelkasten and the related version of Eminem&#8216;s, Sascha Fast argues against them being zettelkasten: To assume, that Eminem had a Zettelkasten because he had slips and a box is the same assuming that people are just sacks full of meat. The mere presence of parts is not enough to assume that &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/11/on-cohesion-and-coherence-of-the-zettelkasten-where-does-the-work-reside/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">On Cohesion and Coherence of the Zettelkasten: Where Does the Work Reside?</span></a>]]></description>
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  1418. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/11/on-cohesion-and-coherence-of-the-zettelkasten-where-does-the-work-reside/"><img title="Where is knowledge bred Willy Wonka" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Where-is-knowledge-bred-Willy-Wonka.jpg?fit=750%2C421&ssl=1" alt="Photo still from Willy Wonka (Warner Bros.,, 1971) with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in the center looking away wistfully and Grandpa Joe and Mike TV&#039;s mom flanking him with quizzical looks. Underneath is the meme quote: &quot;Where is knowledge bred? In the box or in the head?&quot;" width="750" height="421" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
  1419. </div>
  1420. <p>While discussing <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2023/12/27/chris-rocks-zettelkasten-output-process/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Rock&#8217;s zettelkasten</a> and the related <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2021/08/10/55794555/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">version of Eminem</a>&#8216;s, Sascha Fast <a href="https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/comment/19117/#Comment_19117" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argues</a> against them being zettelkasten:</p>
  1421. <blockquote><p>
  1422. To assume, that Eminem had a Zettelkasten because he had slips and a box is the same assuming that people are just sacks full of meat. The mere presence of parts is not enough to assume that there is a whole.<br />
  1423. You can borrow the terms from linguistics: You need cohesion for the formal wholeness of your Zettelkasten (links, separate notes, etc.) and to have a good Zettelkasten, you need coherence (the actual connections between ideas). Eminem&#8217;s box has neither cohesion nor coherence. It is almost the perfect example of what a Zettelkasten is not in the presence of its parts. 
  1424. </p></blockquote>
  1425. <p>The key questions at play here are where is the work of a keeping a zettelkasten done and how is represented? Where is the coherence held? Is the coherence even represented physically? Does it cohere in the box or elsewhere?</p>
  1426. <p>The desk in my office (and that of countless others&#8217;) can appear to be a hodgepodge of stacks of paper and utter mess. Some might describe it as a disaster area and wonder how I manage to get any work done. However, if asked, I can pull out the exact book, article, paper, or other item required from any of the given piles. This is because internally, I can remember what all the piles represent and, within a reasonable margin of error, what is in each and almost exactly where it is at, or even if it&#8217;s filed away in another room. Others, who have no experience with my internal system would be terrifyingly lost in a morass of paper. The system represented by my desk is an extension of my mind, but one which doesn&#8217;t need to be directly labeled, classified, or indexed for it to operate properly in my life and various workflows. One could say that the loose categorization of piles is the lowest level of work I could put into the system for it to still be useful for me. However, to those on the outside, this work appears to be wholly missing as they don&#8217;t have access to the information and experiences with it that are held only in my brain.</p>
  1427. <p>By direct analogy, I suspect that Eminem&#8217;s zettelkasten, and that of many others, follows this same pattern. They neither require internal &#8220;cohesion nor coherence&#8221; in their systems which are direct extensions of their minds where that cohesion and coherence are stored. As far back as Andreas Stübel (1684), many (including Niklas Luhmann) have used variations of the idea &#8220;secondary memory&#8221; to describe their excerpting and note taking practices. <sup>[1][2]  </sup>Many in the long tradition of <em>ars excerpendi</em> have created piles of slips which held immense value for them. So much so that they would account for them in their wills to give to others following their deaths. In many cases, these piles were wholly useless to their recipients because they were missing all of the context in which they were made and why. Lacking this context, they literally considered them scrap heaps and often unceremoniously disposed of them.</p>
  1428. <p>In the case of Niklas Luhmann&#8217;s zettelkasten, he spent the additional time and work to index and file his notes thereby making them more comprehensible and possibly of more direct use to people following his death. For his working style and needs, he surely benefited from this additional work, particularly when taken over the longer horizon of his zettelkasten&#8217;s &#8220;life&#8221; compared to others&#8217;.  However, it&#8217;s not always the case that others will have those same needs. Some may only want or need to keep theirs for the length of their undergraduate or graduate school careers. Others may use them for short projects like articles or a single book. This doesn&#8217;t mean that there isn&#8217;t coherence, it may just be held in their memories for the length of time for which they need it. Those who have problems with longer term memory for things like this may be well-advised to follow Luhmann&#8217;s example, particularly when they&#8217;re working at problems for career-long spans.</p>
  1429. <p>In Eminem&#8217;s case, given the shape and size of his collection, which includes various sizes, types, and colors of paper and even different pen colors, it may actually be easier for him to have a closer visual relationship with his notes in terms of finding and using them. (&#8220;Yes, that&#8217;s the scrap I wrote for <em>8 Mile</em> while I was at that hotel in Paris. Where is the blue envelope with the doggerel I wrote for my daughter?&#8221;) It&#8217;s also possible that for his creative needs, sifting through bits and pieces may spark additional creative work in addition to the slips of work he&#8217;s already created. Cohesion and coherence may not exist in his notes for us as distant viewers of them, but this doesn&#8217;t mean that they do not exist for him while using his box of notes.</p>
  1430. <p>As an even more complex example, we might look at the <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2023/01/14/s-d-goiteins-card-index-or-zettelkasten/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">zettelkasten of S.D. Goitein</a>. His has a form closer to that of the better known commonplacing practices of Robert Greene and Ryan Holiday. While Goitein had a collection of only <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2023/01/19/zettelkasten-face-off-niklas-luhmann-vs-s-d-goitein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27,000 notes</a> (roughly a third of Luhmann&#8217;s), he had a significantly larger written output of books and articles than Luhmann. Additionally, Goitein&#8217;s card index has been scanned and continues to circulate amongst scholars in his areas of expertise by means of physical copies rather than a digitized repository the way that Luhmann&#8217;s has over the past decade. Despite Goitein&#8217;s notes not having the same level of direct cohesion or coherence as Luhmann&#8217;s, I suspect that far more researchers are actively and profitably using Goitein&#8217;s collection today than are using Luhmann&#8217;s.</p>
  1431. <p>For those who are more visually inclined, an additional example of the hidden work of cohesion and coherence can be seen in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxyy0THLfuI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">example of Victor Margolin</a>.</p>
  1432. <div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" title="The process of writing World History of Design" width="660" height="371" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kxyy0THLfuI?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
  1433. <p>In this case, Margolin is certainly actively creating both cohesion and coherence. The question is where does it reside? Certainly, like many of us, some of it resides internally in his mind and in coordination with the extension of it represented in his note cards, but as he progresses in his work, much of it goes into his larger outlines drawn out on A2 paper, and ultimately accretes into the writing that appears in the final version of his book <em>World History of Design</em>.</p>
  1434. <p>As described in his video, Margolin doesn&#8217;t appear to be utilizing his slips as lifelong tools for other potential projects, nor is he heavily indexing or categorizing them the way Luhmann and others have done. This doesn&#8217;t make his zettelkasten any less valuable to him, it only changes where the representation of the work is located.</p>
  1435. <p>Naturally, for those with lifelong uses of and needs for a zettelkasten, it may make more sense for them to put the work into it in such a way that it appears more cohesive and coherent to external viewers as well as for their future selves, but the variety of methods in the <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/10/55820569/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broader tradition</a>, make it fairly simple for individual users to pick and choose where they&#8217;d personally like to store representations of their work. If you&#8217;re like philosopher Gilles Deleuze<sup>[3]</sup> who said in <em><a href="https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/lecture/lecture-recording-1-f/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">L’Abécédaire</a> </em></p>
  1436. <blockquote><p>
  1437. And everything that I learn, I learn <em>for</em> a particular task, and once it’s done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to–and this gives me great joy—if I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, except in certain very rare cases&#8230; 
  1438. </p></blockquote>
  1439. <p>then perhaps you may wish to have better notes with the work cohered directly to, in, and between your cards? Surely Deleuze didn&#8217;t start completely from scratch each time because in reality, he had a lifetime&#8217;s worth of experience and study to draw from, but he still had to start from what he could remember and begin writing, arguing, and working from there.</p>
  1440. <p>This is why having a lifelong zettelkasten practice is more productive for most: it acts as a knowledge ratchet to prevent having to start from scratch by staring at a blank piece of paper. The benefit is that—based on your personal abilities and preferences—<a href="https://boffosocko.com/2022/06/10/reframing-and-simplifying-the-idea-of-how-to-keep-a-zettelkasten/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">you can start somewhere simple and build from there</a>.</p>
  1441. <p>Finally, I&#8217;ll mention that in <em>Paper Machines</em>, Markus Krajewski calls Joachim Jungius&#8217; the &#8220;first practitioner of nonhierarchical indexing&#8221;. In talking about the idiosyncratic nature of Jungius&#8217; zettelkasten for which &#8220;<span dir="ltr" role="presentation">There are no aids for access, no apparatus; neither sig</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">natures nor a numbering of the cards, neither registers nor indexes, let alone refer</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">ential systems that guide one to the building blocks of knowledge.&#8221; he says<sup>[4]</sup>:</span></p>
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  1443. <blockquote>
  1444. <div class="textLayer"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">The architecture of the idiosyncratic scholar’s </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">machine</span> <span dir="ltr" role="presentation">requires no mediation for, or access by, others. In dialog with </span>the machine, an intimate communication is permitted. Only the close and confidential dialog results in the connections that lead an author to new texts. When queried by the uninitiated, the box of paper slips remains silent. It is literally a discreet/discrete machine. </div>
  1445. </blockquote>
  1446. </div>
  1447. <p>If this is the case, then Marshall Mathers is surely channeling Jungius&#8217; practices, as I suspect that many are. </p>
  1448. <p>Perhaps in <em>The Merchant of Venice</em>, Shakespeare may have just as profitably written: </p>
  1449. <blockquote><p>
  1450. Tell me where is knowledge bred?<br />
  1451. Or in the box or in the head?
  1452. </p></blockquote>
  1453. <figure id="attachment_55820797" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-55820797" style="width: 888px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNrtHf9jJB8"><img data-attachment-id="55820797" data-permalink="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/11/on-cohesion-and-coherence-of-the-zettelkasten-where-does-the-work-reside/where-is-knowledge-bred-willy-wonka/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Where-is-knowledge-bred-Willy-Wonka.jpg?fit=888%2C499&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="888,499" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Where is knowledge bred Willy Wonka" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Warner Bros., 1971)&lt;/p&gt;
  1454. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Where-is-knowledge-bred-Willy-Wonka.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Where-is-knowledge-bred-Willy-Wonka.jpg?fit=660%2C371&amp;ssl=1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-55820797" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Where-is-knowledge-bred-Willy-Wonka.jpg?resize=660%2C371&#038;ssl=1" alt="Photo still from Willy Wonka (Warner Bros.,, 1971) with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in the center looking away wistfully and Grandpa Joe and Mike TV's mom flanking him with quizzical looks. Underneath is the meme quote: &quot;Where is knowledge bred? In the box or in the head?&quot;" width="660" height="371" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Where-is-knowledge-bred-Willy-Wonka.jpg?w=888&amp;ssl=1 888w,  300w,  768w,  750w" sizes="(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-55820797" class="wp-caption-text">Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Warner Bros., 1971) <a class="u-in-reply-to" href="https://boffosocko.com/2022/10/08/where-are-the-zettelkasten-memes/">a zettelkasten meme</a>.</figcaption></figure>
  1455. <h2>References</h2>
  1456. <div class="csl-bib-body">
  1457. <div class="csl-entry">[1] Cevolini, Alberto. “Where Does Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index Come From?” <i>Erudition and the Republic of Letters</i> 3, no. 4 (October 24, 2018): 390–420 (401). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/24055069-00304002">
  1458. </div>
  1459. <div> </div>
  1460. <div>[2] Andreas M. Stübel, Exercitatio academica de excerptis adornandis (Leipzig, 1684), 33.</div>
  1461. <div> </div>
  1462. <div>[3] Incidentally, Deleuze has written quite a bit about the concept of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_without_organs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">body without organs</a>, which is also relevant to the broader thinking and knowledge space.</div>
  1463. <div> </div>
  1464. <div>[4] Krajewski, Markus. <i>Paper Machines: About Cards &amp; Catalogs, 1548-1929</i>. Translated by Peter Krapp. History and Foundations of Information Science. MIT Press, 2011. <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/paper-machines"> pp. 50-51.</div>]]></content:encoded>
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  1476. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  1477. <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
  1478. <category><![CDATA[note taking]]></category>
  1479. <category><![CDATA[Social Stream]]></category>
  1480. <category><![CDATA[definitions]]></category>
  1481. <category><![CDATA[traditions]]></category>
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  1486. <description><![CDATA[My impression is that human brains are very much of a pattern, that under the same conditions they react in the same way, and that were it not for tradition, upbringing, accidents of circumstance, and particularly of accidental individual obsessions, we should find ourselves—since we all face the same universe—much more in agreement than is &#8230; <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/10/55820569/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>]]></description>
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  1489. <header>
  1490. <span class="kind-display-text">Replied to</span> <a href="https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/2771/chris-rocks-zettelkasten-output-process" class="p-name u-url">Chris Rock's zettelkasten output process</a> by <span class="h-card p-author">thread by Chris, Andy, Sascha</span><em> (<span class="p-publication">Zettelkasten Forum</span>)</em></header>
  1491. <blockquote class="e-summary">Chris is going to keep insisting that any set of slips is a Zettelkasten, and Sascha is going to keep insisting that a Zettelkasten is a cohesive and coherent system.</blockquote></section>
  1492.  
  1493. <blockquote><p>
  1494. My impression is that human brains are very much of a pattern, that under the same conditions they react in the same way, and that were it not for tradition, upbringing, accidents of circumstance, and particularly of accidental individual obsessions, we should find ourselves—since we all face the same universe—much more in agreement than is superficially  apparent. We speak different languages and dialects of thought and can even at times catch ourselves flatly contradicting one another in words while we are doing our utmost to express the same idea. How often do we see men misrepresenting one another in order to exaggerate a difference and secure the gratification of an argumentative victory!<br />
  1495. —H. G. Wells, “The Idea of a World Encyclopedia.” <i>Harper’s Magazine</i>, April 1937. <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/1937/04/the-idea-of-a-world-encyclopedia/">
  1496. </p></blockquote>
  1497. <p>I&#8217;ll agree with Wells that most of our difference here is nitpicking for the sake of argument itself rather than actual meaning.</p>
  1498. <p>Because we&#8217;re in a holiday season, I&#8217;ll use our holiday traditions to analogize why I view things more broadly and prefer the phrase &#8220;zettelkasten traditions&#8221;. Much of Western society uses the catch-all phrase &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; to subsume a variety of specific holidays encompassing Christmas, Hannukah, New Years, Kwanzaa, and some even the comedically invented holiday of Festivus (&#8220;for the rest of us&#8221;). Each of these is distinct in its meaning and means of celebration, but each also represents a wide swath of ideas and means of celebration. Taking Christmas as an example: Some celebrate it in a religious framing as the birth of Christ (though, in fact, there is no solid historical attestation for the day of his birth). Some celebrate it as an admixture of Christianity and pagan mid-winter festivities which include trees, holly, mistletoe, lights, a character named Santa Claus, and even elves and reindeer which wholly have nothing to do with Jesus. Some give gifts and some don&#8217;t. Some put up displays of animals and mangers while others decorate with items from a 2003 New Line Cinema film starring Will Farrell. Some sing about a reindeer with a red nose created in 1939 as an inexpensive advertising vehicle in a coloring book. Almost everyone differs wildly in both the why and how they choose to celebrate this one particular holiday. The majority choose not to question it, though some absolutists feel that the Jesus-only perspective is what defines Christmas. </p>
  1499. <p>I have only touched on the other holidays, each of which has its own distribution of ideas, beliefs, and means of celebration. And all of these we wrap up in an even broader phrase as &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; to inclusively capture them all. Collectively we all recognize what comprises them and defines them, generally focusing on what makes them mean something to us individually. Less frequently do we focus in on what broadly defines them in aggregate because the distribution of definitions is so spectacularly broad. Culturally trying to create one and only one definition is a losing proposition, so why bother beyond attributing the broader societal definitions, which assuredly will change and shift over time. (There was certainly a time during which Christmas was celebrated without any trees or carols, and a time after which there was.)</p>
  1500. <p>Zettelkasten traditions have a similar very broad set of definitions and practices, both before Herr Luhmann and after. Assuredly they will continue to evolve. One can insist their own personal definition is the &#8220;true one&#8221;, while others are sure to insist against it. Spending even a few moments reading almost anything about zettelkasten, one is sure to encounter half a dozen versions. I quite often see people (especially in the Obsidian space) say that they are keeping a zettelkasten, when on a grander scheme of distributions in the knowledge management space, what they&#8217;re practicing is far closer to a digital commonplace book than something Luhmann would recognize as something built on his own model, which itself was built on a card index version of a commonplace book, though in his case, one which prescribed a lot of menial duplication by hand. The idiosyncratic nature of the varieties of software and means of making a zettelkasten is perforce going to make a broad definition of what it is. Neither Marshall Mathers nor Chris Rock are prone to call their practices zettelkasten—primarily because they speak English—but they would both very likely recognize the method as a close variation to what they&#8217;ve been doing all along. </p>
  1501. <p>Humankind has had various instantiations of sense making, knowledge keeping, and transmission over the millennia classified under variations of names from talking rocks, menhir, songlines, Tjukurpa, standing stones, massebah, henges, ars memoria, commonplaces, florilegia, commonplace books, card indexes, wikis, zettelkasten and surely thousands of other names. While they may shift about in their methods of storage, means of operation, and the amount of work both put into them as well as value taken out, they&#8217;re part of a broader tradition of human sense making, learning, memory, and creation that brings us to today. </p>
  1502. <p>Perhaps it&#8217;s worth closing with a <em>sententia</em> from <a title="w:Terence" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence">Terence</a>&#8216;s (161 BC), comedy <em>Phormio</em> (line 454)? </p>
  1503. <blockquote><p>
  1504. Quot homines tot sententiae: suo’ quoique mos.
  1505. </p></blockquote>
  1506. <p>Translation: &#8220;There are as many opinions as there are people who hold them: each has his own correct way.&#8221; Given the limitations of the Latin and the related meanings of <em>sententiae</em>, one could almost be forgiven for translating it as &#8220;zettelkasten&#8221;&#8230; Perhaps we should consult the zettelkasten that is represented by the <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2023/07/24/vocabulary-notebooks-criminally-insane-asylum-patients-zettelkasten-the-thesaurus-linguae-latinae-and-digital-dictionaries/#Thesaurus%20Linguae%20Latinae" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thesaurus Linguae Latinae</a>?</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  1518. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  1519. <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 17:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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  1521. <category><![CDATA[Félix Guattari]]></category>
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  1524.  
  1525. <description><![CDATA[I keep running into references of Deleuze lately myself, so it may be time to pull some of his works off the shelf. https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich?q=tag%3A%22Gilles+Deleuze%22]]></description>
  1526. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
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  1528. <header>
  1529. <span class="kind-display-text">Replied to</span> <a href="https://collect.readwriterespond.com/%f0%9f%93%ba-videodrome/" class="p-name u-url">a post</a> by <a href="https://collect.readwriterespond.com" class="h-card p-author"><img decoding="async" class="u-photo" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e?s=125&d=default&r=g" alt="Aaron Davis" width=  32 height=   32 />Aaron Davis</a><em> (<span class="p-publication">https://collect.readwriterespond.com/</span>)</em></header>
  1530. <blockquote class="e-summary">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videodrome
  1531.  
  1532. <blockquote>I had never seen Videodrome. It felt like a film that leaves many questions. It made me want to dig back into Deleuze and the body without organs.
  1533. The concept of the body without organs was mainly defined by Deleuze and Guattari in the two volumes of their work Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus.[11] In both books, the abstract body is defined as a self-regulating process—created by the relation between an abstract machine and a machinic assemblage “Assemblage (philosophy)”)—that maintains itself through processes of homeostasis and simultaneously limits the possible activities of its constituent parts, or organs.[12] The body without organs is the sum total intensive and affective activity of the full potential for the body and its constituent parts.[13]
  1534. Source: Body Without Organs by Wikipedia</blockquote>
  1535.  
  1536. ᔥ “Jim Groom” in <a href="https://bavatuesdays.com/ai106-long-live-the-new-flesh/">AI106: Long Live the New Flesh | bavatuesdays</a> (01/01/2024 21:36:56)</blockquote></section>
  1537.  
  1538. <p>I keep running into references of Deleuze lately myself, so it may be time to pull some of his works off the shelf.<br />]]></content:encoded>
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  1550. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Aldrich]]></dc:creator>
  1551. <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 19:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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  1559. <description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;m reading David Graeber&#8217;s Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Melville House, 2021), I can&#8217;t help but wonder where historical cultures would be situated on the The Political Compass?]]></description>
  1560. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I&#8217;m reading David Graeber&#8217;s <em>Debt: The First 5,000 Years</em> (Melville House, 2021), I can&#8217;t help but wonder where historical cultures would be situated on the <a href="https://www.politicalcompass.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Political Compass</a>?</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  1573. <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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  1578. <category><![CDATA[analog office]]></category>
  1579. <category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
  1580. <category><![CDATA[fountain pens]]></category>
  1581. <category><![CDATA[Meetup]]></category>
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  1585. <description><![CDATA[
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  1587. <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/08/55820738/"><img title="RSVP for analog meetup" src="https://i0.wp.com/boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/wp-17047327490788562397639083767363.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1" alt="Typed index card that reads: &quot;@cygnoir: I&#039;m all in for this! Let me know the zoom details when it&#039;s set. Thanks for taking the initiative for setting this up for the community. Bestest, @chrisaldrich&quot; Followed by a signature . On top of the index card is a demonstrator fountain pen." width="750" height="500" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
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  1590. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
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  1592. <header>
  1593. <span class="kind-display-text">Replied to</span> <a href="https://www.cygnoir.net/2024/01/07/microblog-analog-tools.html" class="p-name u-url">Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup</a> by <a href="https://www.cygnoir.net/" class="h-card p-author"><img decoding="async" class="u-photo" src="https://micro.blog/photos/96/https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1fdc74cc0280366a02a97ee553f66208?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fimages%2Fblank_avatar.png" alt="cygnoir" width=  32 height=   32 />cygnoir</a><em> (<span class="p-publication">cygnoir.net</span>)</em></header>
  1594. <blockquote class="e-summary">Nearly two years later, I’m reviving the idea of a Micro.blog meetup for analog tools like paper and notebooks, pens and ink, pencils, stationery, planners and journals, typewriters, index cards, etc.
  1595.  
  1596. Thirteen intrepid fans of analog tools filled out the survey last time, and the majority thought a one-hour Zoom meeting each month would be the best way to start.
  1597.  
  1598. Timing is everything, in so many realms, and this one is no different. I’m available to host this meetup every third Saturday of the month from 9-10 a.m. PST. That would make our first meetup on Saturday, January 20th.</blockquote></section>
  1599.  
  1600.  
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  1605. I'm all in for this! Let me know the zoom details when it's set.
  1606. Thanks for taking the initiative for setting this up for the community.
  1607. Bestest, @chrisaldrich&quot;
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