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Zkn (Zettelkasten)

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Welcome to the homepage of the Zettelkasten (slip box) for your computer. This program is based on the working principle of Niklas Luhmann's famous Zettelkasten.

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  • Free • Open Source

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  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

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  • Mac  Require Java-Runtime-Environment installed.
  • Windows  Require Java-Runtime-Environment installed.
  • Linux  Require Java-Runtime-Environment installed.
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Zkn (Zettelkasten) information

  • Developed by

    DE flagDaniel Lüdecke

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Education & Reference, News & Books, Office & Productivity

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  •  763 Stars
  •  96 Forks
  •  0 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jul 12, 2025 
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What is Zkn (Zettelkasten)?

Welcome to the homepage of the Zettelkasten (slip box) for your computer. This program is based on the working principle of Niklas Luhmann's famous Zettelkasten.

With the Zettelkasten, you can manage your daily work with (scientific) articles or texts much more easily and effectively. Both the managing of important articles, excerpts and quotes as well as the subsequent use of this collection of texts in order to text production are considerably simplified by the Zettelkasten.

The program is free both for private and professional purposes and runs on Windows (Vista, XP and other), Mac OS X as well as various Linux operating systems.

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