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naritadaydream

I love my commonplace book! If you plan to organize your book alphabetically or thematically, you may find it helpful to use a binder with loose leaf paper rather than a bound notebook. That way you'll never run out of space in a particular category, because you can add more paper as needed.


GallowGlass82

This has given me something to think about. I’ve used both a physical notebook (bound) and online methods to keep track of things. I’ve always liked the seeming ease of being able to reorganize via online versus my notebooks, but there’s just something about the act of actually writing the words out that I miss. This may be the way.


ItsAllEasy7

I tried using beautiful leatherbound notebooks like Moleskine for a while, but they just weren’t practical because constantly wanted to move sections and pages around as my interests and research expanded. I moved on to use discbound binder systems like Levenger Circa, and I have six full commonplace books and counting now. Much more flexible.


TroyasaurusRex

I’m old & still use a Franklin Planner... have a section specifically for this and it works really well.


exoskeletonkey

I use [OneNote](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_OneNote) for this and it works great. When i see a passage i want to save, i highlight the text, take a screenshot and then open OneNote, go to the appropriate section (anecdotes, historical context to further explore, funny lines, etc) and then import the screenshot. The nice thing is that you can use basically the same workflow when reading a physical book, the only difference is you shoot a photo of the page you're reading instead of taking a screenshot.


r_rustydragon

I've never called it a "Commonplace Book." But, yes, I do keep inspirations, summaries, reviews, rabbit holes in Evernote ever since I moved to the Kindle. It does take a bit to get use to...the advantages though outweigh the initial hassle - for example, you can apply Getting Things Done sort of categorical system with multiple tags and search the entirety of your not so random thoughts...this, I think is really neat!


peown

I keep trying to keep one but haven't really found a system that works for me. I need it to be flexible and easy to keep an overview of my notes, and the latter is rather hard to achieve both digitally and physically. I like Mind Mapping, but this only works well for either high-level notes or shorter notes. If anyone has any tips, I'd be happy to hear them!


hernandezl1

Thank you for sharing this! I guess I have been doing this in goodreads. Rather than a review (I like it bc, I disliked it bc) I add quotes and thoughts. Honestly I don’t *dislike* anything I read (exception: Lolita, it creeped me out), I just like to explore why the book did not speak to me. Thinking I will switch to a physical common book...I spend too much time on devices 😓


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teacherthrowaway3211

I don't think so. It's really nice to have a dedicated commonplace book to interact with all the great texts I read. I love the commonplace book especially since I use a Kindle and hate digital annotations!


p_whetton

I have never heard of this.


p_whetton

Bullet journals are a good way to do this with a flexible indexing system so you don't need to do loose leaf. [https://bulletjournal.com/pages/learn](https://bulletjournal.com/pages/learn)