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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. The LLM Wiki pattern is the first plausible automation of exactly that bookkeeping. Trail is what it looks like as hosted infrastructure.
Research · May 2, 2026 · 9 min read