by GarnetFloride | 2026-01-16 02:59:07+00:00
Warning: opening a can of worms.
Ann Blair is a great source on general, but there are so many facets to this topic here's a list that I have read or am going to read.

* The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
* The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
* Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age by
Ann M. Blair
* Communicating with Slip Boxes: An Empirical Account by Niklas Luhmann
* Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
* Writing the Laboratory Notebook by Howard M Kanare
* Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs by Markus Krajewski
* A System for Writing by Bob Doto
* Building a Second Brain By Tiago Forte
* Index, a History of the by Dennis Duncan
* Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe
by Alberto Cevolini
* The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information by Craig Robertson
* How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens
* Filing and Database Systems by Jeffrey Robert Stewart, Judith A. Scharle, Judith Scharle Greene
* Organizing from the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern
* The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
* The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul
* Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari
* Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
* Filing by Jeffrey Robert Stewart, Judith A. Scharle
* How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information by Jillian M. Hess
* A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham
* The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
* The Medieval Scriptorium by Sara J. Charles
* Chance Particulars by Sara Mansfield Taber, Maud Taber-Thomas
* The Great Mental Models Volume 1- General Thinking Concepts by Parrish, Shane; Beaubien, Rhiannon
* The Product is Docs by Christopher Gales
* Antinet Zettelkasten by Scott P. Scheper
Articulating design decisions by Tom Greever
The Card System at the Office by J Kaiser
* Systematic Indexing by J Kaiser
* Commonplace Books and the Teaching of Style by Lynee Lewis Gaillet
* Magic and hypersystems : constructing the information-sharing library by
Harold Billings.
* The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for
Processing Information by George A. Miller
* The Commonplace Book by Elizabeth Smither
* The Oxford Handbook of Expertise
* Trees, maps, and theorems: Effective communication for rational minds by
Jean-luc Doumont
* Applied Secretarial Practice by Rupert P. Sorelle and John Robert Gregg
* The Card Catalog by Carla Hayden
* What is a Document by Michael Buckland
* The Commonplace Book by Ann Blair
* Make Better Documents by Anil Dash
* A Core Calculus for Documents by Will Crichton and Shriram Krishnamurthi
* The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams
* Information by Anthony Grafton
* The Card Catalog by Carla Hayden
* Files: Law and Media Technology by Cornelia Vismann
* Living Documentation: Continuous Knowledge by Cyrille Martraire
* Living in Information by Jorge Arango
* How to Write a Technical Paper: Structure and Style of the Epitome of your Research† by Georgios Varsamopoulos
* Information Development: Managing Your Documentation Projects, Portfolio, and People by JoAnn T. Hackos
* Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Jorge Arango
* Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook by James (jamesg.blog)