https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/a-tiny-in-demand-restaurant-in-maine-asked-for-reservations-by-notecard--and-got-20000-of-them/2018/08/21/df41b6f4-a4a9-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>MICHAEL LEDDY </span> in Orange Crate Art: Reservations by notecard (<time class='dt-published'>09/14/2022 14:44:37</time>)</cite></small>

This certainly fits into the broad general ideas surrounding note taking, commonplace books, and zettelkasten as tools for thought. People generally seemed to have used relatively similar methods but shoehorned them into the available tools they had at the time.

This also, incidentally isn't too far off from how indigenous peoples the world over have used memory techniques (memory palaces, songlines, etc.) to hold together and pollinate their own thinking.

Raymond Llull took things a step further with his combinatoric methods, though I've yet to see anyone attempting that in the area of digital gardens.

I think the notecards are pretty dumb. How do you even know who wrote them?