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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 second article in the series, which talks about why someone would want to keep a commonplace book.
If you are just getting into this series with this article I suggest you start at the beginning of the series and work your way through:
- Commonplace Books Part 1: What Are They?
- Commonplace Books Part 2: Why Keep One and How? (this article)
- More articles to come…
Reasons to Keep a Commonplace Book
You might think that with the digitization of so many things, the ancient practice of keeping a commonplace book would have died out. It hasn’t died out, maybe evolved slightly, but it is still going strong. But why is that? Most of us can simply pull a powerful phone (let’s call it what it is… a computer) from our pockets and almost instantly be connected to any piece of data we could possibly want. So why go through the manual effort of collecting information when information is so readily available? The reason is simple: information by itself is just noise. Without context and thought, information has very little value. That truth rings true today just as…
