Do you keep a commonplace book user? :3

Do you keep a commonplace book user? :3

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Yes. I don't know why though. I never look at it, and because I can erase while I type the notes on my phone way better written.

Maybe the process of writing down aids in information retention?

If you want to feel like an uneducated worm you should look at what John Milton had read in the 8th grade

if i carried that many pens around with me, i would lose that many pens. but yeah.

do you have a link?

I've tried to, but I find my pens are too blurry and prone to smudges to validate the effort of writing so much text, and my handwriting is too poor to validate buying decent pens.

I think I should start keeping one for when I read nonfiction, write down the page and reference
currently I just make a ton of dogears which is then harder to go back and find stuff :\

I have a binder with 300 sheets of lined paper. I got it for taking notes when I'm having trouble following a plotline or something but usually discard it pretty quick as I come to adapt to the reading material. That said it's pretty empty, I only got it a week ago and filled out a couple pages for Ovid's Metamorphoses before I started getting used to properly recognizing the pantheon.

I don't know what that is, fill me in

It's a combined journal/notebook you use to write everything down.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book

its something everyone who isn’t retarded has and doesn’t deserve a thread for faggots to congratulate themselves over

What sort would Veeky Forums recommend?

>tfw I've read numerous nonfiction works but never thought to do this, they just have endless dogears I cant sort through now

Bible Journaling.
Just draw in your bibles and make them look pretty.

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why would you do this

Emacs org-mode

>using pen and paper

why do people do this

evernote is godtier

So I can write with one hand while holding the book open in the other to keep in mind what relevant points I'm taking note of. Reading a sentence, then putting the book down to type, then picking it up again, and repeating, is exactly why I defaulted back onto actual written form. It's just not for me. Take your one-handed typing talent developed from years of chronic masturbation back to /s/, this is a no-fap intellectual board.

Holy fuck what kind of blasphemy is this

No, but I've always wanted to since I saw Henry Jones' grail diary. I've never heard of a commonplace book until now.

t. American

First off if that's your real handwriting it's fucking beautiful.

I had one and lost it. Was pretty pissed but plan on doing another one. I have a lot of notes, unfinished stories, poems, random ideas, lists and all kinds of quick jotted thoughts that I need to just put together in one common place book so I can go through it when I get stuck writing.
It'll also help my hand writing as it's pretty atrocious at the moment.

I have a notebook I write my aphorisms in for posterity because I'm pretty certain that I'm this century's Pascal.

Post one

I'm the opposite of commonplace though

No, it might blow your mind too much

Try me

I can't man, you don't know this power I wield. Someone could get seriously hurt

I got it, is it the right size?

never realized there was a word for this particular neurosis... I've kept a commonplace book in one form or another for the past 15 or so years.

You write like a faggot dude. It's too bad GRS is irreversible, otherwise I'd suggest you put your cock back on and go back to chickenscratch.

no, but I write loads of shit on my phone
it's just too annoying to carry around something like that, let alone actually writing in it which makes me feel autistic

Commonplace book?

Huh. I've been doing this for years and didn't know there was a name for it.

I do this, but in a simple text document on my computer that I always keep open and paste interesting quotes or Veeky Forums posts, and ideas.

Literal blasphemy.

I just bought a notebook to use as such. I used to do this as a kid and I feel like it aided in memory retention. There is also the novelty factor of looking back and reading the things you once thought were important.

farnamstreetblog.com/2014/07/john-locke-common-place-book/

Veeky Forums works perfectly as a commonplace book AND a porn folder. AT THE SAME TIME!

I'm curious about it, and I may start one. Do you guys record your quotes as you read or after you've finished the book? It feels silly to write down every sentence that seems important at a first glance.

same, i love the idea of this but my handwriting it too shit for it to ever look how i want and im not creative enough either

You can improve both your handwriting and your creativity. That's what commonplace books are for.

>tfw youll never go on an adventure uncovering lost secrets and keep all your records, thoughts, ideas, uncoverings and be able to give it to your son for him to finish the puzzle

ill give it a shot then! thanks user :)

Well, you got the power of dubs, so I believe you.

chan works perfectly as a commonplace book AND a porn folder. AT THE SAME TIME!
I agree. Based lebanese farming IRC channel.

Dear dubsman,
How do I learn cursive handwriting?

Love, J.

Dubs again, prophecy dubly confirme!

quelle tristesse

Tripfag detected.

ryanholiday.net/how-and-why-to-keep-a-commonplace-book/

this was helpful for me when I started keeping one

So you didn't like the Phoenix Program? I thought it was a great read.

>you will never do it with a qt with short hair and quirky fashion sense

>Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2

Jesus fucking Christ, dude. Veeky Forums's archive was created in 2010, so you've been posting on Veeky Forums for a minimum of 8 years?? Probably well over 10 years. That's so tragic. How have you not grown out of it yet and ventured out into the real world? Even Moot grew up and left.

>why do people have a consistent interest in literature
You're not gonna make it kid.

Remember when newfags knew to shut their fucking mouth and lurk moar? You say 8 years like that's a meaningful amount of time. Go neck yourself literal kid

Very interesting. I've been keeping something like it since I started college, didn't know it's called a commonplace book.

I mean i try to make something a part of me if it resonates with me and keep a journal but most of the time it's self-deception that makes you think that you know something because it's written by you in a journal that you own and is in the same vein as highlighting stuff in books. I mean it's cool to go through it but I don't see how it's exactly different from reading something that you've already read and know will correspond with you or going through online list of quotes? I believe it's much more beneficial to learn to let go and trust that you will be okay and will learn stuff when you will need it.

>in the same vein as highlighting stuff in books
Imo that's kind of the point, except with the tangible benefit of not fucking up your actual book. For example, each time you read/re-read a book something will stand out to you, but you will never have enough margin space to accomodate all of the thoughts it gives you, and at a point you will be muddying everything up to such an extent you may even try squeezing annotations in between lines of text - who knows if at some point you'd render the actual text illegible for your own haphazard thought collecting. Therefore it's more organized, I'd say, to write it elsewhere so long as you have an effective format of organization. Personally this is why I use a binder. I can just take a sheet and write chapter/§/canto/"book" X and start collecting my thoughts about this isolated segment in particular. When the time comes that I return to the text, it's simple enough to just put a blank piece of paper in the corresponding section and keep writing rather than mish-mashing everything together in something more akin to a journal where you aren't so free to shuffle pages around.

As far as your comparison to it being like recording arbitrary quotations you might as well just read on the Internet, that sounds more like a novice thing to me. There's tons of stuff I read that seamlessly fits itself into my framework of understanding a thing, and when I see something that resonates with me, it's not just about highlighting the text, but actual recording the deeper series of inter-related thoughts that this one line, or sentence, or paragraph inspired in me all at once in that moment. To a certain extent it's not so necessary to write down my own ideas because the things I formulate independently (not to say they are unique or unheard of ideas, just that I put them together without someone else's dictation) are far easier to remember than trying to recall someone else's idea. But then again, how long will that last? At some point I expect even the ideas I am intimately engaged with today will lose the psychic energy I assign to them now, they'll sink down into my subconscious, and then one day when I want to call on that thing that I vaguely remember is pertinent to the conversation I'm having here and now, I won't be able to. In that respect, it's nice to have something of a reflecting pool to remind myself of what I used to think, to reflect on if I still think that way, and in what way or how my thinking has changed, if it has changed; though it is still a great utility to have the frame of reference.

All that being said, I still don't really do it. It's a lot of work, more than I feel cut out for (most of the time).

Look for some handwriting you like on Google then practice copying the letters