Charlie: Hi Oskar, how are you?
Oskar: Fine. And you?
Charlie: I'd like to ask you something.
Oskar: You're the boss.
Charlie: I've heard, you're a proud owner of a Luhmann style ...
Oskar: [interrupts Charlie] ... analog slip card box. Yes its right. And you want to take a look?
Charlie. No, i mean yes. Can i?
Oskar: [opens a cabinet] In the current version the analog slip box contains of 5 slots.
Charlie: That is a lot, can i touch it?
Oskar: Of source, it is not a museum but i'm using the box., Sometimes ...
Charlie: That are a huge amount of cards. And the number on top are the ID numbers, right?
Oskar: The principle is adapted from page numbers but is more flexible.
CHarlie: But what about a full text search in the content.
Oskar: There is no ability to search.
Charlie: You mean, the note box is not digital and it is not possible to search in the content?
Oskar: Exactly, this is the idea.
Charlie: ... and what are doing, if you want to retrieve the information about a subject, do you have memorized all the IDs?
Oskar: No i haven't. The unique identifier of each card is more or less a random number. What I'm doing is to create a bug report in the search log.
Charlie: Can you give me an example?
Oskar: Suppose I'd like to search the word “toothbrush” in the note box. The situation is, that there is no register and the numbers are chaotic, so i have to create a new card that the term toothbrush wasn't found.
Charlie: What?
Oskar: This card is put into another slip box together with the other cards of failed attempt in searching something. Here, last week i have searched for many terms and none of them is in the box.
Charlie: This sounds not very efficient. In a wiki i can enter a term into the form and then the search engine will show me all the pages which are containing the word.
Oskar: In the analog system, you are your own search engine. It is your objective to return the page number.
Charlie: Thanks for the explanation
Oskar: Bye