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If you read books at all (and I mean even if you read just a little) you should consider keeping a commonplace book. I am writing a series of articles about Commonplace books and this is the first in the series, which starts by explaining what a commonplace book is.
How I Got Started
I got my start with a commonplace book by reading an article over at The Sweet Setup while waiting in a long TSA line at the airport in November of 2017. Back in 2017 I was making a change in my reading habits. Up until that point I spent a lot of time reading news on a variety of websites and I subscribed to way too many RSS feeds. So as you can imagine I spent a lot of time reading online short form articles. I knew that if I started seriously reading more books that I would end up reading a lot of really fascinating information and keeping a commonplace book was a good way for me to retain that information and have it in a format I could access and use at a later date.
What Is a Commonplace Book?
The concept of a commonplace book has been around for about as long as books themselves. Commonplace books specifically took hold during the renaissance, which makes sense with this period of time being where greater portions of society really started to appreciate the value of knowledge and wisdom. A common definition for…
