Antinet Zettelkasten: A Knowledge System That Will Turn You Into a Prolific Reader, Researcher and Writer

On a quiet day in the town of Oerlinghausen, Germany, there sits a man reading on a gray lounge chair. Sticking out of the man's book is a notecard with scribblings of his thoughts.

On the floor next to him sit a pile of books and academic journals. The room's walls are lined with bookshelves stocked with 11,000 titles.

Yet the object drawing the most attention today is the thing resting on the floor: a wooden notebox cabinet containing twenty-four drawers.

This object, known as a Zettelkasten in German, translates to "notebox."

People hold this mysterious notebox as the secret to how this man, "the most important sociologist of the twentieth century," was so prolific.

And, indeed, he was prolific.

In his roughly thirty-year career, Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998) produced six-hundred academic papers and seventy books (an astonishing amount).

What's more, is that he even seemed to enjoy the process!

Unfortunately, Luhmann's notebox is grossly misunderstood today. Many have developed their own theories of how it works. They preach rules and techniques Luhmann never used.

Moreover, the system's "magic" has been lost in an attempt to port it into the digital age.

In this book, Scott P. Scheper dives into the original nature of Luhmann's Zettelkasten: the analog version—the Antinet version. Scheper details the true principles that made Luhmann such a prolific thinker and writer.

After learning the Antinet, you will be equipped with the same "secret" that turned Niklas Luhmann into a prolific reader, thinker, and writer.

Get ready for the intellectual ride of your life.