Part of the Zettelkasten philosophy is that it requires you to actively work on links between notes. Some notes are simply forgotten, Luhmann (the original Zettelkasten master) used to say, unless they are indexed into your system.
I tend to save a lot of online articles I want to read as PDFs, but found that on many "modern" sites printing as PDF only saves the first page. What's your work process? Do you run into similar problems?
I'm a little late to this thread, but since you are using emacs and deft, you might be interested in this package I created: https://github.com/efls/zetteldeft
I aim to polish it a bit more before publishing it to MELPA, but you might find it interesting already.
The subtitle of the essay is "Doing Words with Things", which is a reversal of the famous essay of John L. Austin "Doing Things with Words". Austin pointed out that words have practical effects. Consider the speech act 'I do', when two partners marry: it are the words that have a specific effect in real life.
Now Latour claims that we -- philosophers, sociologists, but others as well -- have to pay attention to the effects material objects have on people interacting with them. He claims that a specific way of acting can be inscribed in an artifact.
So the key is an example of this: you can only take your key out, if you lock the door behind you. Rather than having a message next to the door saying "Please lock the door behind you", this type of behaviour is enforced through the artifact itself.
So social mores or norms can be inscribed in and enacted through material objects (and not just through words).
At least that's an ELI5 version of what the essay intends to convey.
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