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Research
Niklas Luhmann's Zettelkasten Has Been Waiting Seventy Years for the LLM
Luhmann produced 90,000 cards and 500-plus books with a method that has worked for seven decades — but most of his time went into bookkeeping that does not directly contribute to thinking. LLM Neuron trails are the first plausible automation of exactly that bookkeeping. Trail is what it looks like as hosted infrastructure.
The 1945 Concept
As We May Think
In July 1945, an American engineer named Vannevar Bush sketched a machine that would change how humanity thinks about knowledge. He called it the memex. Eighty-one years later, we are finally building it.