Note Taking Traditions

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A stack of index cards, carefully arranged about the history of sense making

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About Chris Aldrich

An avid reader and inveterate annotator delving into the intellectual history of sense making, note taking, card indexes, zettelkasten, commonplace books, waste books, adversaria, scraps, and ephemera.

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