Arindam Basu
2 min readOct 15, 2021

How to build Niklas Luhmann style Zettelkasten system with logseq and Curvenote

Niklas Luhmann, the prolific German sociologist and the inventor of the Zettelkasten system did not work with Obsidian or Zettler or Notion. He died even before Google was born: his system was analog and remarkably efficient because he used a filing system using (1) free note taking tools which were then processed, (2) all notes were own handwritten notes, so no 'clever app' to push other people’s ideas into his own system: rather, everything was paraphrased; (3) everything LINKED to everything else BUT linearly, so he…

Arindam Basu

I am a Medical Doctor and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury. Founder of TwinMe,