Another study by Korolev & Lyalina (2021) [18] states that the use of the Zettelkasten method to makenotes has a significant impact on the learners as this creative approach to making notes relies upon making referencesand relationships between different ideas
If this study actually says this, it's unlikely supported by direct research in that paper.
Check it after reading: https://www.shs-conferences.org/articles/shsconf/abs/2021/17/shsconf_mtde2021_04008/shsconf_mtde2021_04008.html
As per von Niederhäusern (2020) [17], the Zettelkasten method leads to an enhanced thinking process as the learnerscan reflect on the ideas and theoretical discourse
Compared to? I'll bet the referenced paper doesn't have enough data to back up this claim here.
cross reference: https://mahkuscript.com/articles/10.5334/mjfar.73
herefore, it can be noted thatdigitalization has majorly enhanced the training stages.
What a crappy sentence this is. digitalization? majorly?
People are not aware of the phenomenally effective memorizing method known as the Spaced Interval Repetition(SIR) technique, which was mostly created in the 1960s.
How can we take these researchers seriously if they're saying 1960s and not referencing Ebbinghaus?
They're dropping random references at the drop of a hat without any seriousness, where's their references from the 1960s?
dditionally, Zettelkasten is also referred to as a knowledge management system, which acts as aframework for organizing thoughts, ideas, and information [11].
Why are they referencing this third party source that doesn't use the phrase "knowledge management"? It also only mentions zettelkasten once and references Ahrens which may have been a better reference here. Otherwise, why cite this line at all?
However, studies suggest that theimpact of these methods of making notes is not very effective in learning as they do not help people connect with ideas.
Which studies? Where?
The Zettelkasten technique has been found to be more efficient and effective than note-making [6–8].
I'll have to look closer at these, but they don't generally appear to be supported by research to back up this claim.
The Zettelkasten technique is a unique, strategic way for individuals to think and write. It may be best characterizedas an organization system that assists people in organizing their information while working, making it one of the mostefficient knowledge management strategies (studying or researching) [2].
A more solid definition of the form and structure of such a system is required here. I'm not sure what of these first two sentences they're referencing Helbig for here?
I'm already highly suspicious of this paper now.
Malashenko, Gevorg T., Mikhail E. Kosov, Svetlana V. Frumina, Olga A. Grishina, Roman A. Alandarov, Vadim V. Ponkratov, Tatyana A. Bloshenko, Lola D. Sanginova, Svetlana S. Dzusova, and Munther F. Hasan. “A Digital Model of Full-Cycle Training Based on the Zettelkasten and Interval Repetition System.” Emerging Science Journal 7, no. 0 (March 18, 2023): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.28991/ESJ-2023-SIED2-01.
Not that it couldn't be done, but I'll suggest that following the structure/order of a Luhmann-artig zettelkasten may be a bit more limiting or difficult for creating fiction.
There's a rich history of researching, outlining, and writing with card indexes as part of the creative process. Perhaps looking briefly at some examples particularly focusing on fiction may be helpful? Once you've done this, you can pick and choose the portions and affordances that work best for your preferred way of thinking and working.
Some quick examples:
Perhaps querying my digital zettelkasten may be helpful for you? Start with: https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich?q=tag%3A%27card+index+for+writing%27
Ultimately, you can only spend so much time going down the rabbit hole of how you ought to do this work and taking suggestions or reading about how others have done it. The more difficult but more fruitful portion is to pick a method which seems like it will work for you and experiment with it by actually using or evolving it for yourself. How you start may not necessarily be how you end, but you won't know what's best for you if you don't start. Practice, practice, practice will get you much farther faster.
reply to u/Atreides_Lion at https://reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1ft4r3z/a_very_important_matter_for_me/
Sublette, Ned, and Constance Sublette. The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. Lawrence Hill Books, 2015. https://www.amazon.com/American-Slave-Coast-Slave-Breeding-Industry/dp/1613748205/.
Recommended by Jerry Michalski
https://www.ebay.com/b/barnett-jaffe-slide-case/bn_7024798534
Barnett & Jaffe made tweed cases in the mid-century for carrying around several drawers of 35mm slides.
These could potentially be repurposed as portable zettelkasten.
Sam Harris speaks with Barton Gellman about election integrity and the safeguarding of American democracy. They discuss the war games he's run to test our response to an authoritarian president, using federal troops against American citizens, the difference between laws and norms, state powers to resist the federal government, voter identification and election integrity, political control over election certifications, the Bush-Gore election, the Electoral Count Reform Act, the prospect of public unrest after the November election, January 6th, George Soros, the "good people on both sides" calumny against Trump, what happens to Trump and Trumpism if Harris wins in November, the presidential debate with Harris, the authoritarian potential of a second Trump term, Project 2025, and other topics.
Stress Testing Our Democracy: A Conversation with Barton Gellman<br /> Episode 384 of Sam Harris podcast<br /> https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/384-stress-testing-our-democracy
Suggested by Flancian at FoTL
After 24 Years, Scholar Completes 3,000-Page Translation Of The Hebrew Bible by [[Rachel Martin]]
Globetrotting Boy Detective by [[Jerry Michalski]]
Also in this pantheon, though later, are Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego and Wild Kratts.
The Mad Scientists' Club was in the genre, but with less globetrotting.
The Mad Scientists' Club<br /> https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Scientists-Club-Scientist/dp/1948959313/
https://www.amazon.com/100-Fathoms-Under-John-Blaine/dp/B004J0V01A<br /> 100 Fathoms Under by John Blaine<br /> Grosset & Dunlap, 1947
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Shot-Kim-Aldrich-Mystery/dp/B000V96AH2 <br /> The Long Shot<br /> a Kim Aldrich Mystery
Cross reference:<br /> - Hardy Boys Mysteries<br /> - Rick Brandt Science Adventure Series
Shannon, Claude Elwood. “The Bandwagon.” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2, no. 1 (March 1956): 3. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.1956.1056774.
Seu, Mindy, ed. Cyberfeminism Index. Inventory Press, 2023. https://www.amazon.com/Cyberfeminism-Index-Mindy-Seu/dp/1941753515.
Flancian mentioned
Baez, John C., and Mike Stay. “Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone.” Quantum Physics; Category Theory. arXiv:0903.0340 [Quant-Ph] 813 (March 2, 2009): 95–172. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12821-9_2.
Snyder, Timothy. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Crown, 2017. https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Twenty-Lessons-Twentieth-Century/dp/0804190119.
Flancian mentioned reading
Shibboleth, The West Wing S2, E3<br /> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745675/
Dozens of Chinese stowaways are discovered in a container ship in California; Toby looks to pick a fight over school prayer with a recess appointment; Thanksgiving at the White House sees C.J. in charge of turkeys and Charlie looking for the ultimate carving knife.
John Amos Dead: Good Times Dad, Roots and Mary Tyler Moore Star Was 84 by [[Jordan Moreau]] for Variety 2024-10-01
He gives due honor to Frank & George7 I should like to keep it a few days to read your life. When this monument has been erected to Dr. D you should set about erecting your own in the shape of a really handsome Edition of the Origin that a gentleman could read8 EAD
Footnote 8:
The last edition of Origin published during CD’s lifetime was the 1876 reprint of Origin 6th ed., and had some corrections and additions to the text (Freeman 1977). This edition was produced in a cheaper form than previous ones, with small type and a relatively small page; a ‘gentleman’s’ edition usually had larger type and page size, with wider margins.
Ref: Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11918,” accessed on 30 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11918.xml
ᔥ[[Richard Carter]] in Mastodon at Sep 23, 2024, 08:20 AM (accessed:: 2024-09-30 01:34:36)
Z orn ’s lemma. Suppose S, < is a partially ordered set with the property that every chain in S has an upper bound. Then S contains amaximal element.
typo : < should be ≤
The axiom o f choice. Suppose {Si}, i E I, is a family of nonemptysets. Then there is a function / from I into U / Si such that f(i) E Sifor each i e I.
For any collection of non-empty sets, one can create a set by choosing one element from each set in the given collection.
There are a variety of other equivalent ways to state this as well as names. One variation is Zorn's lemma.
Gemignani, Michael C. Elementary Topology. 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley Series in Mathematics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971.
opology has reached the point where a mathematician engagedin topological research is not only justified in calling himself a topologist,but he must specify whether he is a point set topologist, differentialtopologist, algebraic topologist, or some other topological specialist.
sub-branches of topology: - point-set topology<br /> - differential topology<br /> - algebraic topology
Geometrically, topologywas the study of properties preserved by a certain group of transformations, the homeomorphisms. Geometry itself can be considered as thestudy of properties preserved by certain types of functions; e.g., Euclideanmetric geometry is the study of properties preserved by rigid (that is,distance-preserving) transformations (known sometimes as congruences).(Of course, as with topology, it is somewhat unfair to try to define geometry as the study of one particular thing.)
Fundamentals of Point-Set Topology
tamal (singular) or tamale from Nahuatl tamalii<br /> tamaladas - tamale making events/parties<br /> tamaleras - people who make tamales
flour - masa harina<br /> masa preparada - ready made dough<br /> slaked lime (aka "cal")
alternate names for customized tamal: pasteles, hallacas, humitas
Growing Shade Equity, One Tree at a Time by [[Edith de Guzman]]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_forest_inequity
urban forest inequity
Mentions of humans thinning trees for better tree canopy in the section on black ash trees in Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
https://x.com/david_perell/status/1838425252772077636 via David Perell's podcast.
Sam Altman's note taking process. Pocket notebook, spiral bound so he can tear out pages. No real mention of what he does with them after though a suggestion of typing them out somewhere.
https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/notes/99-3-14.html
Certainly an early example of blogging here... diary, ideas, even a link blog at the bottom
normal kurutoga was actually designed for writing Japanese strokes. The Advanced models were for writing English.
via u/runrainsky at https://old.reddit.com/r/mechanicalpencils/comments/u7pt8z/kuru_toga_elite_vs_roulette/jhvzka9/
https://metagov.org/projects/koi-pond
Metagov's KOI (Knowledge Organization Infrastructure) is a graph database that supports relationships between knowledge objects, users, and groups within Metagov. via JM
https://www.ebay.com/itm/156425307066
Remington Rand leather portable card index notebook case with slots for a variety of functionalities: - 1-31 for days of month - Alphabetic categorization A-Z - Months (Jan-Dec) - Miscellaneous
https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1f9arin/interesting_substitute_typewriter_case/
Using an Akona regulator bag from a diving supply store in Hollywood as a replacement case/bag for an ultraportable typewriter.
I visited the Supply Sergeant store on Hollywood Blvd yesterday, and for $15 they were selling a "regulator bag." This was 11 3/4" x 11 3/4" x 3". Perfect for carrying a Hermes Baby/Rocket! Here is another, but more expensive: https://www.akona.com/products/product?productId=11406
u/pbasch is in the LA area
#6-40 internal hex are easy to find.
Joe Bellicini indicates that the set screw threading for the platen knobs on the Royal Quiet De Luxe is #6-40.
For the next hour and a half, he signed 141 copies with blue Sharpie pens, fortified by a mug of coffee that a museum staff member placed in front of him. The mug, which the museum sells for $19.95, boasts in all caps: “I Finished The Power Broker.”Caro usually dislikes cracks about the book’s length. But he seemed delighted by the mug.“Did you see this?” he asked, holding up his coffee.“I’m not supposed to say this,” he said, “but I kind of like it.”
Also, have to say I love that green colour with the white topped keys, and I see you have both the upper case comma and the mighty uppercase period! Always feels better to end a sentence with an upper case period!
ending a sentence with an upper case period!!! 🤣
I twist together two lengths of kevlar fishing line that's 0.4mm diameter and rated for 29kg, so combined roughly 0.8mm diameter and ~58kg pull. This is about the sweet spot imo in terms of thickness, slim enough to fit in small routing holes on mainspring housings and thick enough to get a good sized knot when you tie it. It's also pretty close to the thickness of old sinew drawbands I've replaced. The rated strength is definitely overkill but better over than under. In practise a drawband shouldn't experience more than 750g-1,5kg of pull under normal use.
u/Koponewt aka Pelicram's advice for using fishing line to replace drawbands.
Gen Z is into typewriters by [[Tea Krulos]]
Kro also works with the Glass Keys Collective, a self-described “lackadaisical consortium of typewriter poets” that works together as a “loose conglomerate.”
organization of Chicago typewriter poets, Poems While You Wait, has been around since 2011. The group’s mission is to provide patrons with “a magical, unexpected, unpretentious, and decontextualized encounter with poetry.”
Typewriter ChicagoHours by appointment1525 Ogden, Unit L, Downers Grove, 630-561-5853typewriterchicago.com/
Chicagoan Kay Kro, “the Traveling Typist.” Kro, who owns 16 typewriters, works as a “typewriter poet,” setting up to type poems on the spot at street fairs, art fests, markets, weddings, and wherever they can find a gig.
A business in agreement with Dul is Kibbitznest Books, Brews & Blarney on Clybourn in Sheffield Neighbors, which strives to be unplugged and WiFi free. The cafe, bar, bookstore, and venue has five typewriters provided by Kibbitznest, Inc., the nonprofit associated with the business, although only one typewriter is currently in working order and available to use by customers. Annie Kostiner founded both the nonprofit and business aspects of Kibbitznest (the for-profit cafe is now run by Paige Hoffman).
That desire for a “digital detox” is frequently brought up amongst typewriter aficionados—it’s an escape from pop-up ads, spyware, AI-generated content, doomscrolling, deepfakes, obnoxious comments sections, and all the other headaches that hit you at Internet speed. A piece of paper in a typewriter, on the other hand, is a simpler connection of your thoughts tapped out letter by letter, mistakes and all.
Edmonton’s YEG Typewriters, run by 28-year-old Keith Ferrer, and Tampa Typewriter Co., a repair service run by 19-year-old Jack Armstrong.
Looking for a keyboarded writing device without harsh screen lights...
Since you're asking in r/typewriters, here's a list of what some well known playwrights, screenwriters, and directors used and would likely have recommended for writing tools without harsh screens. Personally I'm in Tom Hank's camp and would recommend a Smith-Corona Clipper.
If you need some other recommendations from novelists and others, you could try: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/typers.html
If you like Scrivener, but want to get away from screens, you can look back to Frank Daniels' method with index cards which he taught to thousands of screenwriters including David Lynch. Variations can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrvawtrRxsw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwKjuBvNi40. Vladimir Nabokov used a very similar method for his novels which is fairly well documented: https://www.openculture.com/2014/02/the-notecards-on-which-vladimir-nabokov-wrote-lolita.html
A book is a complete discrete object, cut to fit and shaped for engaging reading, but thousands upon thousands of loose pages in their archival boxes constitute something else: a relay baton handed off to the future.
He did at least speak to almost everyone, apart from LBJ’s press secretary, Bill Moyers, who has kept his silence.
He handwrites first, then types it up, triple-spacing in the old newspaper fashion, then pencil-edits and retypes, pencil-edits and retypes.
Robert Caro's method of writing
The Society has his old Smith-Corona Electra 210 on display, but he’s hung on to a bunch of duplicate models and a large quantity of black cotton typewriter ribbons so he can continue to work the way he always has.
I suggest to Caro that it’s become one of those things young New Yorkers do, or at least say they do, on the path to becoming a serious adult: Get a Met membership, figure out where Film Forum is, buy (and maybe even finish) The Power Broker.
Caro has never revealed who his Simon & Schuster editor was, and when I ask him point-blank, he smiles firmly. “I’d rather not say. I’ve promised myself I’m not going to go down that road, and I never have.” (Gottlieb, in his memoir, was less discreet. It was Richard Kluger, who in 1973 quit editing to write books of his own, including the Pulitzer-winning Ashes to Ashes, a critical history of the tobacco business.)
documentary Turn Every Page
This particular shed was a floor sample, bought because he wanted it delivered right away. The business’s owner demurred. “So I said the following thing, which is always the magic words with people who work: ‘I can’t lose the days.’ She gets up, sort of pads back around the corner, and I hear her calling someone … and she comes back and she says, ‘You can have it tomorrow.’”
"I can't lose the days." is a tremendous philosophy.
Peel the masking tape off and install some 2 mm EVA craft foam is what I'd do with it. Or if originality is desired, you can get a pretty good match on that cloth tape they used.
James Grooms recommends 2mm EVA craft foam for typewriter noise insulation.
Origin of Royal's Vogue by [[x over it]]
WP Engine is not WordPress by [[Matt Mullenweg]]
What do you mean with Zettelkasten ratchet? I am too unfamiliar with the word ratchet to really understand the meaning.[9:46 AM] Or if someone else has an idea and can help me out
The additional "hidden context" is that the rachet/gear seen in many of these diagrams is usually attached to a radial spring (or some other device) which, as it is wound, stores energy which is later used by the bigger device in which the rachet and pawl are encased. Examples include the stem of watches, which when wound, store energy which the watch later uses to run as it counts the seconds. Another example is the mainspring of a typewriter which is attached to a ratchet/pawl set up; when you push the carriage to the right, the spring gets wound up and stores energy which is slowly expended by the escapement a space or a letter at a time as you type. In the zettelkasten analogy, the box and numbered cards placed in it act as the pawl (the wedge that prevents backward movement), as you add more and more information, you're storing/building up "potential energy" in small bits. This "stored energy" can be spent at a later time by allowing you to more easily write an article, paper, book, etc. In some sense, the zettelkasten (as most tools do) allows you a "mechanical advantage" in the writing process over trying to remember everything you've ever read and then relying on your ability to spit it all back out in a well-ordered manner.
reply to Muhammed Ali at https://discord.com/channels/992400632390615070/992400632776507447/1286577013439594497
continuation of https://hypothes.is/a/GTPIPnYiEe-GTUu4YcdeAQ
I enjoyed this podcast but got the feeling they see PKM as a kind of grueling Fordist production line. The process in your book seems a lot less like a grind and a lot more like fun!
Some of the framing goes back to using the card index as a means of overcoming the eternal problem of "information overload" [see A. Blair, Yale University Press, 2010]. I ran into an example the other day in David Blight's DeVane Lectures at Yale in which he simultaneously shrugged at the problem while talking about (perhaps unknown to him) the actual remedy: https://boffosocko.com/2024/09/16/paul-conkins-zettelkasten-advice/
It's also seen in Luhmann claiming he only worked on things he found easy/fun. The secret is that while you're doing this, your zettelkasten is functioning as a pawl against the ratchet of ideas so that as you proceed, you don't lose your place in your train of thought (folgezettel) even if it's months since you thought of something last. This allows you to always be building something of interest to you even (especially) if the pace is slow and you don't know where you're going as you proceed. It's definitely a form of advanced productivity, but not in the sort of "give-me-results-right-now" way that most have come to expect in a post-Industrial Revolution world. This distinction is what is usually lost on those coming from a productivity first perspective and causes friction because it's not the sort of productivity they've come to expect.
In reply to writingslowly and Bob Doto at https://discord.com/channels/992400632390615070/992400632776507447/1285175583877103749<br /> Conversation/context not for direct attribution
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. 1st ed. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2013.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/156407303710
Pocket note card portion of the Memindex System
According to each of the printed cards, the system was patented on 1904-12-06.
#401B Nu-trol Control Cleaner for Electronics, a specialty cleaner
Nu-trol is a a degreaser/cleaner which also has a bit of oil in it as well for cleaning and oiling the rails, mainspring, and friction points of a typewriter. Follow up with compressed air to knock off the excess.
The Royal Ten (and later standard typewriters in the line) have a mechanism such that when the carriage is advanced it causes the ribbon to advance simultaneously. Sometimes this mechanism can be gummed up with oil causing issues with ribbon advance. Hitting it with lacquer thinner and/or Nu-trol can free this up.
Royal 10 Manual Typewriter Carriage Flush and Lube, Basic Procedure by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]
Typewriters? In 2024? Are You Nuts? by Jesse M. Slater for [[Raconteur Press]]
A short, but relatively solid typewriter 101 story for someone looking for a distraction-free writing machine. Certainly not completist, but enough to get your toes wet.
Slater uses his typewriter for a first draft, then edits the second draft as he re-types it into his computer to have a digital copy for further editing and distribution.
whiteout is an abomination before the Lord
If you want to make an educational technologist’s eyes sparkle, just mention “The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer”. It’s a futuristic interactive schoolbook, described in Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age, where it lifts a young girl out of poverty and into sovereign power.
Perhaps telling of the educational technology spaces I have hung out in, I've not heard mention of this book ever.
Typewriter in the browser, built with Figma as a coding example. https://www.typewritist.com/
details via https://new.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1fl73il/typewriter_in_the_browser/
Typing on Newsprint Paper by [[Joe Van Cleave]] on 2022-11-27
Pacon brand newsprint paper from the Dixon Ticonderoga Company in 8.5 x 11 inch reams is available from Amazon. (Product number P3401)
[Expensive] typing paper it makes me feel like I am obligated to the paper to do as good of a service as I can to serve it. Eliminating typographical errors, having as good of a sentence structure as possible. All of these become inhibitions to the free creative expression.
I end up serving the paper rather than [it] serving my creative needs
—Joe Van Cleave
Zettelkasten - Death by Category by [[Al Persohn]]
bridging cards?!? Do we really need more verbiage like this in this space? Relationship to hub notes or "Maps of Content".
https://www.franklin-christoph.com/
Among various fountain pens, notebooks, and other papers, they sell archival quality 3 x 5 inch index cards suited to fountain pen use.
via https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1fkmj9d/i_refinished_my_olympia_sm3_case_a_while_agoheres/
The traditional curvy Olympia SM3 cases can be stripped down to bare wood and stained and refinished with beautiful results.
Leaf (Terzuki) is the primary administrator of typewriter.wiki https://discord.com/channels/639936208734126107/755616597674164224/1285219031842029589
https://web.archive.org/web/20231121081108/https://www.humanwordsproject.com/
Found via Richard Polt's blog.
Site no longer exists in 2024
reply to u/NoDoctor4602 at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1fjrjns/ive_spent_a_few_days_searching_for_any_concrete/
In the mid to late-1950's and after several typewriter manufacturers made limited runs of gold plated typewriters for special anniversaries or for bonuses to salespeople. They're uncommon, but not rare. I've seen at least 6 or seven pop up on auction sites in the last 6 months. If you really want one, watch the lower end of Facebook Marketplace, ShopGoodwill, Craigslist, et al. where one will assuredly pop up for a much more reasonable price. I'm not sure if it was this one or another I've seen since April, but one of these went up for sale on ShopGoodwill.com recently and sold for about $600. A week later it was listed on eBay for several thousand just like this one. Given the timeframe, I doubt they spent any time cleaning, oiling, or adjusting it in any fashion—it was a pure flip. I've also seen this recently with Royal typewriters with a less common, but highly collectible Vogue typeface: a Royal P sold for about $900 there and was listed on eBay shortly after for over $1,500 with no indication that it was cleaned or adjusted. (If you watch some of the sites carefully, you can pick up a Vogue machine for under $100 easily enough depending on the type and condition.)
In my mind, as a collector, I'd try to find one in the wild and clean it up or I'd want it in stunning restored condition for over $2k. You might be just as well off picking up a working model for $100-$150 and gold plating the pieces yourself. It would probably be cheaper in the long run and you'd have a better machine in better condition. Some sucker with money to burn will eventually buy a Gold Olympia SM3 for over $2,000.
Here's a vew posts/videos as examples of gold plated machines:<br /> - A video of another Gold Olympia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnUHgyABjw0<br /> - Royal QDL https://typespec.com/weve-got-gold-in-them-thar-hills/<br /> - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kasbah-mod-typewriters_n_1453776
If you're looking for something great that you'll use, I recommend visiting a repair shop that has some stock to try out some machines to see if you'd like their touch/fee/aesthetics first. Visiting a type-in or two might give you some experience with a wide variety of typewriter models as well. Then try to find a rare or exceptional version that's worth putting some money into. Why put so much into an Olympia if it turns out you're an Olivetti, Royal, or Smith-Corona person? https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-repair.html (I desperately love Royals, but Smith-Coronas and Remingtons are much more forgiving of my mediocre typing technique, a fact which pains me dearly and cost a few hundred dollars and some sweat equity in cleaning and tuning machines to discover). Incidentally, I'll mention that for about $2,000 you could easily purchase a wide variety of about two dozen machines (even with shipping) and be able to get something truly exceptional in terms of condition and function.
Incidentally, the higher prices of $250-600 for repaired/refurbished/restored machines being sold by repair shops are usually what Harry Beercan is using as a pricing guide when he's selling his grandmother's musty, broken, old typewriter online not knowing that several hundred dollars in labor and parts has been calculated into the selling price.
Typewriter Video Series Episode 345: Addressing Envelopes by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
Wayfinding by Michael Bond by [[Ton Zijlstra]]
Read Sun 9/15/2024 10:10 AM
obviously the "other" Michael Bond (ie, probably not the writer of the Paddington books...)
The author claims that compromise is justified for the sake of peace, sometimes even at the expense of justice.
Could Avishai Margalit's idea of rotten compromise be applied to the concept of the "lost cause" and portions of the disappearance of Reconstruction following the Civil War? Are we now reckoning with the actual fallout of post-Civil War politics in the new millennium?
Without memory there is no community; memory is a constitutive element in the making of a community.
If true, this means that the active destruction of memory ought to further splinter the Republican party in the Trump-era (2016- ?).
are there parallels/antecedents to be drawn between the sirname Silliman and the early definitions of the word silly as "religious or holy"?
Method of loci, a memorization technique based on spatial memory
thank goodness I'm not the only one to see this... surely there must be some overlap in scholarship here. But where is it?
A holiday like Juneteenth seems to be expanding since the George Floyd protests to make it a form of lieu de mémoire in the United States.
Calling attention to the importance of "social forgetting", historian Guy Beiner has argued that "there is an evident need for major historical studies of lieux d’oubli to counterbalance the studies of lieux de mémoire."[11]
What about the idea of "social ignorance" or maybe "social blindness" as American seems to have done with slavery in the post-Civil War to roughly the early 1990s?
A lieu de mémoire (French for "site of memory" or memory space) is a physical place or object which acts as container of memory.[1] They are thus a form of memorialisation related to collective memory, stating that certain places, objects or events can have special significance related to group's remembrance.
This feels like it's tangential to memory palaces, but I'll have to read more of Nora to discern if he had any experience here or if he's simply stumbled upon a related idea, but one which wasn't taken to it's logical extreme.
1984–1992: Les Lieux de mémoire (Gallimard), abridged translation, Realms of Memory, Columbia University Press, 1996–1998
University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, professor of history, 1967-76, Merle Curti Professor of History, beginning 1976;
Paul Conkin taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1967-1979 after which he moved to Vanderbilt.
David Blight received his Master of Arts degree in American history from Michigan State in 1976 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in the discipline from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1985.
Presuming a '76-'85 range for his Ph.D., the two would have overlapped at Wisconsin-Madison from '76-'79.
crossreference: https://youtu.be/A-8NnmWPNJk?si=xwHLBxLOR9-WBXdK&t=1079 and Conkin's notes
2024 DeVane Lectures: “Can It Happen Here Again? Yale, Slavery, the Civil War and Their Legacies.” by [[Office of the President - Yale University]]
https://brickstoragecalculator.com/
Lego storage calculator via reddit user r/ApplicationOk3887 https://www.reddit.com/r/LegoStorage/comments/1fiaozg/a_brick_storage_calculator/
Two people convicted of running a Chinese 'maternity hotel' in Rancho Cucamonga by [[Fiona Ng]]
This was the case I had for jury duty last week. I only got to voir dire and didn't even make it into the box. Interesting to see it make the news after it was settled.
The headline is a bit off. They were convicted of fraud and money laundering. There were no charges with respect to a maternity hotel operation based on what I heard on the first day before being excused.
https://courses.yale.edu/?details&srcdb=202403&code=DEVN%20200<br /> alternate: https://courses.yale.edu/?details&srcdb=202403&crn=13007
Can It Happen Here Again? Yale, Slavery, the Civil War and Their Legacies<br /> Professor: David Blight<br /> Yale University
Class 1, Why Does the Civil War and Reconstruction Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination? by David Blight for [[YaleCourses]]
Assembling Box Joint Pliers with Peter Ross by [[NESMforged]]
delivery-dan 2 points3 points4 points 6 hours ago (1 child)Mineral spirits with just a touch of transmission fluid. Used to own typewriter repair shop large parts washer with mineral spirits with transfluid strip off case and submerged in fluid ti clean then air blower to dry and reassemble. Wd 40 marvel mystery oil will only be temp fit and become worse over time.
Some advice on cleaning typewriters from someone who previously had a typewriter shop.
Recommendation: mineral spirits with a touch of transmission fluid.
https://typewriterdatabase.com/Kmart+%28Brother%29.200.653.bmys
The Kmart 200 (Brother) looks like a close replica for the design of the Remington 666 (Brother).
Breaking down former President Donald Trump’s rambling linguistic style by [[Steve Inskeep]]
https://www.amazon.com/First-Knowledges-Law-Way-Ancestors-ebook/dp/B0C1M8B4HQ
Law: The Way of the Ancestors
Technicians of the Sacred, Third Edition by Jerome Rothenberg
Recommended by Eric Sinclair
Louis Vieux Elm intentionally set on fire by [[The Mercury]]
This photo of the Louis Vieux Elm Tree was taken by Willard Balderson, Wamego, in 1986. The tree stood 90 feet high with a crown spread of 104 feet, and a trunk circumference of 317 inches. For several years the Louis Vieux Elm Tree held the title of U.S. Champion. The estimated age of the elm tree was 300 years and since 1986 succumbed to age, weather, and disease leaving only a stump. In 2011, even the stump, which the Pottawatomie County Historical Society attempted to save, protect and shelter, was burned down, leaving nothing but a pile of ashes.
via https://pob.tauycreek.com/post/35426971069/this-photo-of-the-louis-vieux-elm-tree-was-taken
https://libguides.marist.edu/c.php?g=1314310&p=9677364
Artwork mentioned by Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass.
The book contains so far unpublished material, stories and poems, ballads and songs full of poetry and fantasy. Surprising observations and aphorisms show us some new perspectives to view the world with.
So apparently German writer Michael Ende kept a zettelkasten for his writing output. It seems to be a bit more on the unpublished anthology side, but indicates that it has observations and aphorisms as well.
Why have I not seen/heard about this example before?
Today the Magnum Theatrum is digitized and on the Web, but Zwinger’s original Theatrum is not.
How do you tell us this, but not provide a link to Laurentius Beyerlink's work(s)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Beyerlinck
Fascinating that the word "link" appears in his name! :)
Smith Corona Typewriter Changeable Type Slugs Faces Styles Demo by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]
Short demo of changing the typeface on the Smith-Corona 6 series+ using the Smith-Corona Changeable Type functionality.
Remington Typewriter Type Alignment Adjust Typebars by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]
When adjusting typebar slugs, it's much easier to bring a letter up higher on the page than to bring a letter lower.
Typewriter Clear Plastic Card Guide Holder Clean Polish White Out Dirt Restore by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]
For cleaning white out off of the clear plastic on card guides try the following: - scrape with fingernail<br /> - Simple Green - Marvel Mystery Oil (from automotive shops) followed by lacquer thinner in miniscule amounts (one drop). The oil helps protect the plastic from melting from the lacquer thinner. Rinse and repeat.
Others have indicated that floor wax stripper will remove white out without damaging the plastic of the card guides.
Fossilized Masking Tape Removed Cleaned from Typewriter Body by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]
The paint on the metal of the SMC 6 series typewriters will generally stand up well to lacquer thinner and along with scratching can be used to remove the old residual masking tape often found on these typewriters.
WD-40, gun bore cleaner, and Simple Green generally don't do much to this sort of tape residue.
Downsizing Your Typewriter Collection by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
Similar in content and tone to his other videos: - "The Minimal Complete Typewriter Collection" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ej6kd1FsnE and <br /> - "Episode 31: Culling the Herd" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ueHE3Whjk
Brazilian Pepper tree
I went gleaning for fruit to try and reduce my carbon footprint. Was it enough? by [[Caitlin Hernández]]
This kind of gathering is called gleaning, which is when excess food in public areas gets harvested.
Type-in activities:<br /> - learning about typewriters, both using and how they work;<br /> - demonstrations of typewriter maintenance, cleaning, how to change a ribbon, and small repairs for common problems - typewriter tool showcases - what tools might you need to maintain, clean, and repair your typewriter? - lots of machines to try out, which might best suit your writing style, and typing touch? If you don't have a typewriter, this is a great way to try some out before buying your first one - typewriter purchasing and collecting advice - encouraging typing as a distraction and screen-free writing tool - writing (fiction, non-fiction, poetry) along with potential writing prompts (this could dovetail in with other library-related writing endeavors); - A group story: A single typewriter is reserved to one side upon which each participant can contribute by typing a single sentence to create a collaborative/group story "exquisite corpse"-style; - typewriter art and arttyping - Speed typing contest (with small prizes) - We'll bring stationery (paper, envelopes, stamps) to encourage participants to type letters to friends or family (bring an address for someone you'd like to write to); - typewriter swap and sale (optional depending on the venue's perspective; sales are not the primary purpose here) - typewriter repairs using 3D printing or designing replacement parts (if the venue can support this) - typewriter handicrafts (typewriter covers and sewing/repairing cases) - typewriter resources (repair shops, where to find ribbon, how old is my machine?, et al.) - a possible typewriter mystery game? - share stories - encourage community
For a local library-specific type in:<br /> - library card applications which can be typewritten for potential patrons who don't have a library card - typewriter books (particularly if hosted at a library; place a hold on several typewriter-related books which attendees can browse through at the event and check out afterward) - 3D printing typewriter keys, spare parts; design of replacement parts for 3D printing
Attendees are encouraged to bring one (or many more of their own favorite manual typewriters) to use, showcase, or demonstrate to others, but having your own typewriter is NOT a requirement for attendance.
https://myoldtypewriter.com/2018/08/05/adler-j3-please-release-me/
Adler's have a quirky locking mechanism for helping to lock the machines into their cases and after decades of storage, the rubber can compress thereby locking the typewriter into the case permanently. Removing the e-clips internally will unlock them at which point the rubber compression locks can be replaced.
The article mentions other incidences of this. Another example at https://new.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1fckg8f/removing_triumph_gabriele_1_from_case_base_plate/
What To Do With Substack? by [[Dan Allosso]]
The "recency" problem is difficult in general in social media which tends to accentuate it versus the rest of the open web which is more of a network.
Why note-taking apps don't make us smarter by [[Casey Newton]]
Newton takes a thin view of the eternal question of information overload and whether or not AI might improve the situation. No serious results...
databases are not designed to be browsed.
Casey Newton makes this blanket statement. Any real evidence for this beyond his "gut"?
Many "paper machines" like Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten were almost custom made not just for searching, but for browsing through regularly much like commonplace books.
Perhaps the question is really, how is your particular database designed?
Gloria Mark, a professor of information science at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of “Attention Span,” started researching the way people used computers in 2004. The average time people spent on a single screen was 2.5 minutes. “I was astounded,” she told me. “That was so much worse than I’d thought it would be.” But that was just the beginning. By 2012, Mark and her colleagues found the average time on a single task was 75 seconds. Now it’s down to about 47.
Three apps that made me more productive this year by [[Casey Newton]]
Casey Newton is using a Zettelkasten note taking approach based on zettelkasten.de to cover his beat
Manuel of Eames Cursive Shorthand by the Card System<br /> A Reporting System with Longhand Movement, in which the Vowels and Consonants are Joined in the Order of Their Occurrence, Including a Remarkable Discovery in Pedagogics which Reduces the Time of Learning at Least One-half
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Geyer_s_Stationer/Ml7lJzdUNFIC?hl=en&gbpv=0<br /> Geyer's Stationer<br /> Devoted to the Interests of the Stationery, Fancy Goods and Notion Trades · Volume 82<br /> 1926
page 36 of the 1926 December issue has a "Rapidex" product for the telephone which sounds ostensibly like a Rolodex-type system
https://podcasts.reclaimed.tech/@ds106radioSummerCamp
Another fun photo of "linked" strings wrapped around a library card catalog representing the links between ideas within a paper database.
fun photo of "linked" strings wrapped around a library card catalog representing the links between ideas within a paper database.
Aluminum Foil Method: Tear off a small piece of aluminum foil and dip it in water or vinegar. Rub the rust spots gently with the foil. Aluminum is softer than chrome and will not scratch the surface while effectively removing rust. As you rub, the foil reacts with the rust, helping to dissolve it. Steel Wool Method (Use with Caution): If the rust is more severe, use fine steel wool (#0000 grade) to gently scrub the rusty areas. Be careful not to press too hard, as steel wool can scratch chrome if applied too aggressively.
Suggestions for removing rust from chrome on typewriters and typewriter cases.
Type slugs commonly used for pharmacists' typewriters: ℞ is short hand Latin for recipere aka prescription. <br /> ℥ (ounce)<br /> ℈ (scruple)<br /> Gr is for grains, an older weight measurement used before the metric system. 437.5 grains to an ounce.
https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1fccoqh/what_are_these_keys/
http://www.furniturecityhistory.org/company/3841/steelcase-inc
History of Steelcase furniture company
http://www.furniturecityhistory.org/ Furniture City History Grand Rapids, MI
https://www.etsy.com/shop/lazydogtypewriters/ Lazy Dog Typewriters
Typewriter Video Series - Episode 187: Remington Ten Forty by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
JVC: Somewhere between a portable and an ultraportable. Good, but not great. Could be a solid, easy-to-use machine for a type-in. He wasn't a fan of the touch. Likely wouldn't use it as a daily machine.
Joe Van Cleave hypothesizes that the slightly blurry and/or ghosting letters on typewriters may be the result of the typebar just hitting the typing guide and moving slightly as they do thereby creating issues with the type clarity.
Prominent HKS Professor Ricardo Hausmann Accused of Plagiarism by Former Co-Author by [[William C. Mao]] and [[Dhruv T. Patel]]
Remington Monarch by [[Joe Van Cleave]]]
The Remington Monarch (rebadged as a Singer Graduate), is one of the few machines with 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, and 3 line spacing settings.
It has a true carriage lock on the front of the machine.
Generally solid build, particularly on the main body. Only some portions on the back are pressed metal.
JVC generally likes this machine with respect to it's contemporaries.
I wonder if there's a copy anywhere of the Macey business system book that they sold to explain how to use it?
reply to u/atomicnotes at https://old.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1fa0240/early_1900s_3_x_5_inch_card_index_filing_cabinet/
This is an excellent question. I strongly suspect you won't find a booklet or book from Macey after 1906 that does this, though there may have been something before that.
You'll notice that on page 9, the 1906 Macy Catalog takes what I consider to be a pot shot at their Shaw-Walker competition in the section "Not a kindergarten". Shaw-Walker was selling not just furniture, but a more specific system, as well as a magazine. Since there's something to be learned for current knowledge managers and zettel-casters in the historical experience of these companies and the systems and methods they were selling, I'll quote that section here (substitute references to enterprise and business for yourself):
Not a Kindergarten
Every successful enterprise knows its own requirements best, and develops the best system for its own purpose. We manufacture business machinery. Our appliances and supplies are boiled down to a few parts, and simple forms, and will accommodate any system in any business. The office boy can understand and use them. If we undertook to teach the whole world how to run its business, we would have to saddle the cost on those who buy for what we tried to teach those who do not.
System in business is desirable, but no system can make a business successful, where the management is deficient. So called ‘Systems’ often result in useless expense and disappointment. We retain what experience proves useful and practical; so far as possible, eliminating all complicated and useless features. This explains how we can employ the best workmanship and material, combined with pleasing designs, and sell our goods with profit at lower prices than the inferior articles offered by others.
There may have been some booklets at some point, but I've not run across them for any of the major manufacturers of the time. (I've only loosely searched this area.) Some of the general principles were covered in various articles in System Magazine which was published by Shaw-Walker, a filing cabinet manufacturer, in the early century. System Magazine was sold to McGraw-Hill which renamed it Business Week, but it is now better known as Bloomberg Business Week. In the December 1906 issue of System, W. K. Kellogg, the President of the Toasted Corn Flake Company, is quoted touting the invaluable nature of the Shaw-Walker filing system at a time when his company was using 640 drawers of their system.
To some extent the smaller discrete "system" was really a part of a broader range of information and knowledge of business and competition. This can be seen in the fact that System Magazine still exists, just under an alternate name, along with a much broader area of business schools and business systems. We've just "forgotten" (or take for granted) the art of the smaller systems and processes which seemed new in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Other companies had "systems" they sold or taught, much like Tiago Forte teaches his "Second Brain" method or Nick Milo teaches "Linking Your Thinking". However, most of them were really in the business of selling goods: furniture, filing cabinets, desks, index cards, card dividers, etc. and this was where the real money was to be found at the time.
A similar example in the space is the Memindex System booklet that came with their box and index cards. The broad principles of the system can be described in a few paragraphs so that the average person can read it and modify it to their particular needs or use case. The company never felt the need to write an entire book along the lines of David Allen's Getting Things Done or Ryder Carroll's Bullet Journal Method. Allen and Carroll are selling systems by way of books or classes. Admittedly, Carroll does have custom printed notebooks for using his methods, but I suspect these are a tiny fraction of the overall notebook sales for those who use his method.
Here's evidence of a correspondence course from the Library Bureau some time after 1927, which was when they'd been purchased by Remington Rand: https://www.ebay.com/itm/335534180049 . Library Bureau had an easier time as their system was standardized for libraries, though they did have efforts to cater to business concerns the way Shaw-Walker, The Macey Company, Globe-Wernicke and others certainly did.
I think the best examples in broader book form from that time period are Kaiser's two books which still stand up pretty well today for those creating knowledge management systems, zettelkasten, commonplace books, getting things done/productivity systems, second brains, etc.
Kaiser, J. Card System at the Office. The Card System Series 1. London: Vacher and Sons, 1908. http://archive.org/details/cardsystematoffi00kaisrich.
———. Systematic Indexing. The Card System Series 2. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1911. http://archive.org/details/systematicindexi00kaisuoft.
“The Da Vinci Code” Trial: Dan Brown’s Witness Statement Is a Great Read by [[Peter Lattman]]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aopwhHY9eUY
Demonstration of an IBM Selectric on an episode of Columbo.
Sears on many of the SC rebadges have 1 1/2 line spacing. One day I’m going to get a beater Citation for the parts and put the 1 1/2 parts in a nice SC.
On some of the Sears rebranded Smith-Coronas in the 6 series (Citation, in particular) there are 1 1/2 line spacing options.
https://typewriterdatabase.com/1964-sears-citation.2600.typewriter
Sears Citations seem to have an above regular frequency for script typefaces. They shipped with red stickers next to the bichrome setting and on the right ribbon cup warning against the use of bichrome ribbon for the tallest script letters on machines which had script typefaces.
blackgermansheperd40
in the LA area for potential type-ins
Macey Filing Appliances 1906<br /> Catalogue No. 4206<br /> The Macey Co.<br /> https://archive.org/details/macey-filing-appliances-1906/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/catalog00fred/mode/2up
Fred Macey Company Catalog (1910)
Warren Zevon at a JP-1 style typewriter in 1977 photo by Joel Bernstein
https://genius.com/Terri-clark-poor-poor-pitiful-me-lyrics
It's like Bruce Dickinson showed up on this track and said "More Cowbell." Must have pleased the spirit of Warren Zevon from the late 70s.
https://old.reddit.com/r/fountainpens/comments/biobp1/npd_new_platinum_and_new_pangram_day/
Quick jovial pen whiz, grind me a flexy stub.<br /> via u/bizarro_kvothe at r/fountainpens
Voix ambiguë d’un cœur qui au zéphyr préfère les jattes de kiwi (Approx. translate : Ambiguous voice of a heart which prefers kiwi bowls to a zephyr). That the one we (frenchs) usually use
The wizard quickly jinxed the gnomes before they vaporized.
For Italians to remain in-topic with foxes and dogs: "Ma la volpe col suo balzo ha raggiunto il quieto Fido" (But the fox with her leap has reached the quiet Fido* *common italian name for a dog)
One with all foreign letters: "Quel vituperabile xenofobo zelante assaggia il whisky ed esclama: alleluja!" (That blameworthy, zealous xenophobe tastes his whisky and exclaims: Alleluja!)
Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes
farmer jack realized that his big yellow quilts were expensive
Well, I pawned my Smith CoronaAnd I went to meet my manHe hangs out down on Alvarado StreetBy the Pioneer Chicken stand
Song: Carmelita<br /> By: Warren Zevon<br /> 1976-05-18