Electric Historian

Zettelkasten Zkn3 English Language Manual - Part 5: Activating Markdown

Zettelkasten Zkn3 English Language Manual - Part 5: Activating Markdown

The Zkn3 Zettelkasten programme has a setting in the preferences to use Markdown. This could be very useful when migrating to another zettelkasten type programme, as part as ones disaster planning. However its not clear what impact this feature has in Zkn3, so this post is a bit of a voage of exploration.

Zettelkasten Zkn3 English Language Manual - part 1 Menu Items

Zettelkasten Zkn3 English Language Manual - part 1 Menu Items

The Zkn3 programme replicates Niklaus Luhmann’s original paper ‘Zettelkasten’ or Index Card Box. However the original programme was written in German and although both English and Spanish language version are available, ther eis not English language manual or documentation available. So by a system of trial and error I have written one. Any mistakes are mine alone, so please correct them in the comments box below

Logistics of a Combined-arms Army of the Red Army - Seminar Presentation

Logistics of a Combined-arms Army of the Red Army - Seminar Presentation

As part of the ‘History Goes On’ seminar series, they have featured my delayed, seminar presentation. This was originally designed to be presented at the Second World War Group Conference in 2021 and to accompany the release of my article in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies Vol. 33 No. 4 due March 2021.

Research in archives

Research in archives

The aim of this blog piece is to outline the kind of research methodology that I use when doing a small project, say 10,000 words, a journal article, MA dissertation, something at that level. I will be using both libraries and archives for research, coupled with some online sources and some reference books.