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I came across this video only to realize this is something I've always done and didn't have a name for lol. Thanks for this video!

Arthur Morgan kept a commonplace book, in case you're still not convinced you should do it

My sister and mother just got me a notebook and i have been thinking how to use it creatively as i already got a journal for poetry, so your videos are really helping! Thank you!

But here is the thing, is a commonplace book supposed to replace a classic journal?

having a journal would be such a thing I would do, I used to have one but was paranoid someone would read it so I would rip up the pages and put it in the bin😭 im terrified of someone reading it now I just use my notes app

really enjoyed this video! eager to get to my journal and go through these prompts.

can’t have a diary or journal haha my mom would find it, take it, read it then throw it out 😂

I love having my own little place that's fully mine, with place for all of me

duuude, i love your channel and your style of videos so much. so calming and inpiring :)))

After i watched ur first video i started using my hobonichi for this instead of journaling, and it's never been so enjoyable to use it!

When you draw on your notebook do you like use a pencil first or use a ball pen, I’m to lazy to use a pencil is that fine

Miss crystal I think you're a genius

I don't understand what i'm supposed to write a commonplace book

i use sketch books to take notes from the books i read. I have stored them at my warehouse at work. The other day, we sold the company, but they said, Frank we have your note book. Yes, I saw 2008. The books I read and my mind set was differnt. Before I lost my parents and freinds. Life was much simpler and the more I found more books on lost and yes, These note books are holding our set in time. Great talk.

Thank you so much for this great idea! I've recently been trying to improve my experience while at community college and trying to "mix my life up" from the norm ( study, eat, work, sleep) but when I had 5 or 10 minutes I would find myself scrolling on my phone. Now I can have fun in my journal and best of all I can actually look back into it and see where my thought process was and remind myself of good ideas. Just generally a notebook that makes me feel better about myself and I feel like my time has been put to a far better use.

You're passion is palpable and made me want to have a common place book. Unfortunately, I'm also lazy! But I've also been wanting to remove myself more from social media and learn more things that interest me and document this knowledge. I need to stop relying on motivation and just do the things!

Thank you❤

Thank you for this! For so many years, I've. bought pretty notebooks to write notes, journal, write down general things like to-do lists... but then I'd be discouraged from using it due to perfectionism. A commonplace book really takes weight off your shoulders to perform.

This made me think of my Chinese teacher in high school. He told us to write down whatever in life, even a word. The notebook called见闻感， means observe, hear,touching. And the notebook was the interesting thing in my tedious high school life. But when I in the last year of high school, he dead when he was cycling around the country. His life seemed like a film.

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Eliminating pressure points you mentioned are so important! Idk how I missed that. Thanks for the video it’s very well structured and well thought out

hell yeah this was just in time for my newest journaling obsession that just started bc of ur videos

thank you very much! i've always thought that my usual journal needed a second part because it wasn't getting all of what i wanted to express in it, and having both a journal (kinda use it like a sketchbook) and a commonplace book is all i needed!!

i love you for all your videos on journaling <3

Never knew about the existince of commonplace books until two years ago, but I was keeping A5 notebooks with me since 2013 and used them for all kinds of things like To-Do-Lists, ideas and sort of diary entries. They are probably too unorganized to be called commonplace books cause they are way too chaotic and there is 0 system in them, but I'm so glad I kept these things for so long.

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"A personal diary, a personal archive and collection of knowledge "loved that

Ive had common place books without knowing what it is and ive never really known what to call it

I like how you include all the possible things to add - rather than simply one thing you happen to like. It really helps push the usefulness of the concept in connecting disconnected ideas. btw nice chapters!

You are so refined but at the same time so laid back. I want so badly to be like you

Its a great idea to write, i wasn't great at studying but i love reading and writing and telling a story, you have great ideas, thanks for sharing. Id really like to know how you did your note taking or mind mapping or whatever you did, j am being nosey about you 😊

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Mhmm👌🏽 I’ve got many journals I need to fill and I only keep adding to my collection

I immediately got a commonplace book after watching your original video! it’s such a game changer for me especially since it’s not natural for me to self-reflect/journal thoughts! i enjoy this perspective so much more

Love your videos.. Always great ideas. You are awesome.

shes so underrated

Someone on Reddit mentioned that it could be a personal encyclopedia and I was thinking of making my commonplace journal something like that. A place where I can write about new facts about animals and such and world history.

love

Have u done that prompt the soundtrack of my life? I would like to see yours if you have

I genuinely love listening to you and watching your videos and work from your books you show I’ve sort of found a comfort in this and your channel lol

i love ur videos 🫀 you’re so cool and smart

You’re Videos always help me organize my practice still I ask myself if there’s a difference between a common place book and a journal and if yes what this reason is supposed to be?

I agree, for example if you buy a really flash Car, then you show it off to everyone and they are giving you ooohs and arrrrs they make you feel good for a certain amount of time. When all those oooohs and Arrrrs have stopped and the ego feels its not so special any more, you are back to the beginning, until you buy something else new. Thats why the most important time is in the here and now.

i suggest using milanote or obsidian, both for free, but milanote is more friendly(i still don't know how to use obsidian)

Thank you so much