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Bookmark or Share- How To Start a Commonplace Book - Imperfect JournalingA Commonplace Book is a collection of notes, quotes, insights, and other bits of information that you want to save for future reference. It is essentially the opposite of a traditional journal – instead of holding your thoughts, it holds important outside thoughts that you want to remember.
- How to Keep a Commonplace Book: 4 Benefits of CommonplacingA commonplace book is a system for writing down and sorting all manner of tidbits: quotes, anecdotes, observations, and information gleaned from books, conversations, movies, song lyrics, social posts, podcasts, life experiences, or anything else that you might want to return to later.
- Commonplace book - WikipediaA commonplace book from the mid-seventeenth century. Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century.
- Create a Digital Commonplace Book - The New York TimesFeb. 10, 2021. Creating a commonplace book is somewhat like marking your favorite lines in a novel with the Amazon Kindle highlights feature — except your personal one-stop knowledge repository...
- John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (1685)John Locke, A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books (London: J. greenwood, 1706) Popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a "commonplace book" was a notebook used to gather quotes and excerpts from one's literary wanderings — a kind of personalized encyclopedia of quotations.
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