Zettelkasten
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"Card file" redirects here. For the use of cards in library cataloguing, see Card catalog. For the rotating device used to store information, see Rolodex.
A Zettelkasten (German: 'slipbox', plural Zettelkästen) or card file consists of small items of information stored on Zettels (German: 'slips'), paper slips or cards, that may be linked to each other through subject headings or other metadata such as numbers and tags.[1][2] It has often been used as a system of note-taking and personal knowledge management for research, study, and writing.[3]
In the 1980s, the card file began to be used as metaphor in the interface of some hypertextual personal knowledge base software applications such as NoteCards.[4][5][6][7][8] In the 1990s, such software inspired the invention of wikis.[9]