Important Note: If you're wondering what happened to yesterday's video, I was forced to removed it because a few people started to abuse the amount of information it revealed. It turned out to contain too many spoilers. The original intent of the video was to show you my commonplace book but without people copying & sharing it word for word. That was a miscalculation on my part. This video is almost the same but with some spoilers taken out. Sorry, and thanks for understanding. If you liked the old video, please click the like button again here, as the old video lost nearly 11,00 views and 1,000 likes :(
Actualized.org Cracking video, stayed up to watch it last night & delighted you've re-uploaded. Thanks to this, I've ditched my hopes of buying a TV and PS4 next paycheck, and am buying a small laptop and OneNote software instead!
Aha! Glad it's back! Thank you! :) I have been searching for it (and thinking I lost my mind LOL), because the notification came through late last night (South Africa), and I saved it for early this morning.
I find that after writing all my thoughts and feelings into a notebook before I go to bed, it helps calm my mind because it like this assurance that yes great these thoughts these feelings I am having are important/valued. That they are not going to be forgotten they are noted down here for tomorrow and decades to come and that really helps me in calming my mind.
It puts you into a state where the ultimate journal matters in a good way. You truly don't give a shit about anything and you're just happy as fuck as a result, because nothing matters. Nothing matters, nothing means anything, there's nothing to do, there's no point, there's no goal but there's also no boredom, there's no negative meanings attached to the meaninglessness, it's just perfectly meaningless and it's awesome. You're basically just like sitting like a cat on a windowsill enjoying whatever experience is before it, just being and it feels amazing.
Imagine a plethora of commonplace books that were built in this way. Decades after this video was shot. So many different perspectives that can change the world in so many beautiful & mind-blowing ways. All in a practical, readable way as well.
Wow. I've been a fairly creative and spontaneous note-taker for years now but this was a very golden tip. Huge injection of inspiration. My respect for Leo just grows and grows. Every Actualized video is like Christmas.
Leo! I've been trying to organize my finds, insights and knowledge for 20 years (!), and never found anything that would be big enough, or organized enough, or expandable enough.. I am checking out the software while watching your video, and feel like I've just been handed the key to the magic cavern! it's so cool! It's so uplifting! Thank you!!!
i dont mean to be so off topic but does anybody know a tool to get back into an Instagram account? I was dumb lost my login password. I appreciate any tips you can give me!
I've been doing this since I was a child - I am currently keeping mine using the evernote app (which lets you insert graphics and attachments). I am still putting things together and will be doing so for the rest of my life. I am happy to hear it is not just something I do that makes me weird but rather it is a natural impulse of those who live an intellectual life :)
Hey Leo! I started journaling two days ago, like a diary and I thought this episode was going to be about that type of journaling. I felt very intimidated because I lack the confidence and always believed I wasn't smart enough to do this kind of work. I felt like I should stop watching but I pushed myself to with the mentality of "just listen and observe, treat it like mental seeds for the future, you don't have to do anything but just listen." I'm so glad I did and I felt like I really got to know you in a different light, we have so much more in common than I previously thought over the past year from reading your bullet notes. I think I will invest in this when this Covid subsides. I'm not very business-oriented and I'm not sure where my life is going, I'm currently in this cocoon phase of my development where I haven't really found people who resonate with me yet, I've been kind of a lone wolf for the time being. But I really feel that I can do a journal similar to this but probably more student-oriented, but that's open to change down the road. I think I'm going to start with your life purpose course after I read this book A Course in Miracles. Anyways, so happy I find you last year!! This video was really a huge surprise to me and I feel like it sparked some passion in me. Thank you! 🌈💚🐢😇
Thank you so much Leo! I have so many video summary's, school notes, aspirational quotes, goals etc that I have all stored randomly on my macbook's 'Notepad'. You literally have saved my life from spiralling out of control. I have onenote on my macbook this whole time which I just haven't utilized. Everything is falling in to place now and becoming organised and I don't need to stress about something I may have forgotton, as I am currently in the process of making my Commonplace book. I absolutely love the videos you make, watching this while I had breakfast this morning. I'm in the middle of my exams and this is helping my out so much with organising absolutely everything! So thank you so much for the time and effort you spent in making this video!
Woooow, this just changed my life. I already started to write down every insight and info I find and think of, started my commonplace book years ago. The only problem is that I simply made a l library of simple folders with in folders with in folders by categories, and have a lott of random notepads for everything. And then a lot of information down each notepad, and when it goes too long I start a new notepad for the same topic at times and continue. And It grew huge, and veery hard to articulate my self around it. Wish I had this program when I started! My life's information is a stack of about a thousand notepads scattered at all places.
Leo, I had a commonplace book even before you posted the video, I just didn't have a name for it. Now I do! Thank you for giving me some extra tips that I will use.
Great vid. I have been doing this with notebooks for 50 some years. Hundreds of notebooks. Didn't have a name for what I have been doing. I have used my insights for creating 20 companies in the last forty years. Spread the word for recording insights and knowledge.
Wow this is fantastic, absolutely amazingly perfect program, ive been using paper for years, can"t believe i havent figured this one out yet! Thx a lot leo for this one!
Good Lord. I've had this program for years, and never tried it because I didn't know it was any good or had any of these features. Probably the single most important free video I've seen this year. Thanks for the value Leo.
Leo I feel so ashamed. You made such radical change in my life that I don't know how to pay you back. Really I feel i owe you more than rest of the people in the world. Man I just wanna say thank you from the deepest place in my heart.❤
Long time OneNote user here. Yes, do not underestimate this program! Mobile app version is also available on all major mobile platforms. They also have a web app version which you can access from any browser. On desktop I use 2013 version and I confirm it can work on local files.
Wow, life brings to you your next step when you are ready. I have about 6 different notebooks going on plus my calendar as I try to record lessons from books I am reading, sketches, pictures, meditations, numerology etc. etc. Finally my next step. What a great present! Thank you once and again for Actualized.org and YOU.
I strongly recommend Notion for note-taking. I've tried everything from Notes app on Mac, Evernote, Wikis my company has used, etc, but Notion has come out far ahead of the pack. You get instant search for anything with "cmd + k" and it's a pleasure to edit/move things around. It feels like the app has been made to get out of your way and let you write.
Hey Leo, I started the same exact kind of note book in 2012 on my own, just because I was having so many different creative ideas. During that time I've written over 380k words, or about 900 pages of purely creative and new ideas. But, its not very organized and thats something I want to do one day, but now since its so massive it will be quite time consuming. I also find that I don't have time do do anything with all of this accumulated knowledge because I think of new ideas constantly all day long, and then I have to write those down. So, I'm too buys thinking of new ideas and incites to go back and organize or do anything with it. Your right, it never ends and just speeds up overtime.
Maybe you need to turn off the idea generator for a couple of weeks so you can organize all of that shit? Otherwise, well how will you find anything? What good would it be for you or anyone without organization?? The whole point of One Note would be to prevent rambling & losing track of it. I can already do rambling with Sublime text. Write a bunch of shit down, never find it. Although I can use findstr from CMD prompt to search all my notes, but I would then need to know what it is I'm searching for. Perhaps OneNote has some searching mechanism. It might be best to export all your existing notes out of OneNote, start with a clean slate & start setting up the books & tabs. Then start pulling in data from your exported notebooks to copy into the right places.
Why thank you Leo. You have sparked that OneNote fire I had about a year ago. I have quite a bit of notes on it and you have inspired me to keep at it! Thank you and for all that you do, have a good one!
ok man, I'm running a full commonplace book now, in onenote just like you. It has allowed me to integrate my journal and all my projects and notes in one place. The links you can make between documents are amazing, and it gives you the chance to really get a solid life overview because of the tiers of organisation. Thanks!
I am finally beginning to use this, though not exactly as recommended, but close. If anyone was thinking they’d be ok with keeping their CB in the cloud, it doesn’t seem like a terrible idea. I just realized Google Drive has interlinking, continuous saving, and multiple document types. Although it’s missing the multi-tool aspect of each sheet, I think it might work for me. I am trying this with my iPad but listened to Leo’s advice about a real keyboard, which is right on. Being able to type accurately and fast is key. The brand Zagg makes a bluetooth keyboard case that I’m finding really great, and with iPad mini, I can carry this thing in a cargo pocket or of course backpack anywhere I go. I am loving this idea in general and I’m already finding that the act of putting things in and of interlinking does something akin to handwriting in helping me make mental connections that parallel the links. Many thanks Leo!!!
hi Mr Leo. awesome channel you've got here. my experience with trying to make a commonplace book is whenever I start my mind never stops. I can't sleep because my mind races off into creativity. I have even resorted to put it under my pillow and wake up at odd hours to write. I had to put an end to it. but overall it was an enjoyable experience.
Hi Leo! It's been a while already and I'm just passing here to add my feedback as this tool is really amazing. I'm still using it since them and it helps me to keep things much more organized and then I'm able to reach the information that I want much faster and also work on then when I have some insights. Using it in my personal and work life.
[UK, May 2023] Loved this - a fantastic piece on a subject not easy to bring too much new to. Subscribed - just off the back of this video - & of course the purpose & outlook of the channel. 👍🏽👍🏽
I already have it, and its so similar to what leo described. This give me so much confidence that i m going in right direction. PS: i call it my life console or my life dashboard 2nd PS: i also made it on OneNote
Thank you for this! I had never even heard of a commonplace book until someone (briefly and indirectly) mentioned it in another video. When I went to seek out more information, your video came up. I don't know that this is something I'd have the energy/inclination to do. But I found it all fascinating. What I'd really like to do is find some of these types of books that people have kept in years past! When you mentioned that at the start of the video, my mind went wild. I'm way too lazy to do this for myself. But I would love to see what others have done with it! Again, thank you. This has been a revelation. I can't believe I had never heard of this concept or even the term.
I just eventually came to use two journals whithout particularly planning it out. The digital one is more private for deeper ramblings and self reflection, while the paper notebook is more a journal for logging life events to look back on.
I feel like Leo did this video more like a Blog. I would focus more on the topics of writing the notes than on showing my personal way of doing it. But again this maybe is helpful for people who dont have any idea from where to start. Alot of people probably will try to replicate his Commonplace book ,starting from buying a laptop like his. I think using OneNote is the main advice in first place. I am using it on my phone , and since im carrying it everywhere , i can always add something emmediately.
I really appreciate the videos you put out here. They are a tad long but they are definitely worth the length. Last night I was laying down thinking about trying to start writing in a journal again, so this video really came in clutch. I like your response in the last part of the video: people need to actualize themselves without it being spoon-fed, including myself. You are a great inspiration to me and to others. Keep on doing what you are great at: helping people create a beautiful mind
I was previously using google docs to write all this kind of stuff down. It's starting to get too hard to keep track of everything so this will really come in handy. You're a Godsend, Leo :)
Thank you SO much Leo. I always wanted to started a journal but never found the right app and I hated One Note 16. Now I have One Note 10 and it's perfect. Thank You Thank You Thank You
Wow, after all these years, I never knew what OneNote was lol, now I do i've got tons of Word documents to copy into it! Why did I not know about this powerful piece of software!! Thank you Leo
Wouldn't recommend using it JUST locally. What if you accidentally lose your laptop on a train or the hard drive goes haywire? your entire life's work is gone down the shitter. I have one note with cloud. Even if I lose my primary source of input, all of my data is still backed up and can be restored when I buy a new PC/laptop.
Problem is that there's no such thing as 'the cloud'. There's only a bunch of hard drives you don't own, maintained by people you don't know. Ideally, you'd have a copy locally AND somewhere in the cloud. But whatever you use, make sure you can use it locally, even if you use it in the cloud most of the time. Cuz you never know when they're gonna kill a cloud app, and then you're shit out of luck. Oh, and unless it's encrypted, don't store ANYTHING in the cloud that you wouldn't want in tomorrow morning's headlines.
Thank you for sharing this video. I got so much value from it. I am now using onenote and have really cleaned up a ton of my thoughts. Feels awesome to have organized things more cleanly.
OMG this may change my life I have been trying to bullet journalling but the kids keep getting into now I can go back to digital and just keep an art journal.
So this is what it is called - commonplace book. Yup, I've been using OneNote that way. Also my Galaxy Note 8 is a godsend - yes, I used its fantastic pen to write what's on my mind in OneNote.
Awesome video Leo! I'm searching out OneNote as I'm watching this.. I bought an analog journal earlier this year to write in all the different learnings I've been coming across, though soon found it difficult to categorize and organize so much information into a linear book despite making topic separations. This tutorial is perfect and I love how it is the next level of what I was already being compelled to do. Love love love your work!!
@@merlijn1722 I liked it until my computer had a problem & I lost everything that I had spent so much time entering. I had it organized well & it was user friendly. I went back to paper. In the back of my mind I knew to never trust the computer.
@@nancyw8341 ah that sucks, bud. do you think it was a problem with the propgram or just your computer? I'll make sure to copy on a USB drive just in case. That's the thing about computers, right? It's fantastic technology but it's very intangible and if something goes wrong you lose so much at once. Thanks warning me
@@merlijn1722 It was just my computer. It was getting old. I should have been saving on my external hard drive more often but I don't know how to (hubby does it for me) and I lost months of good stuff. You should be OK if you keep backing your stuff up.
Thank you for sharing all these information with us, Leo! That is exactly what I needed since I recently started to get a bit tangled up with all my word documents and analog diaries. So relieving and kind of clearing up the mental mess to have everything in one place. Very kind and helpful of you! :)
One thing you can do to boost the usefulness and ease of use for your commonplace book is record notes with voice recognition on your phone and then just email it to your computer of which you have your commonplace book if you can't take your main device with you
I've been needing this for the last five years! I wish I had everything so organized. Scrivener is my candidate for this. It's where I wrote my novel, syncs across platforms, and is a joy to use.
15:32 I literally almost spit out my drink when he was going on about how you need a good old fashioned keyboard. A lot of people these days can tap out on a touchscreen keyboard as fast as, or faster than, I can type on a real one (and I'm quite fluent in QWERTY touch typing). I share Leo's personal preference, but times change.
10 % of humankid abuses the other 90 % (corupted politics, narcistic bosses, ....) We should unite and fight against this abuse. Leo would be the perfect intelectual leader for this!
I highly recommend the latest version, which is for free by Microsoft. First, I thought that it is not so cool because the tabs are all on the side, but I love the cloud solution and that you can access it from anywhere. That's a major plus, I used to do the BulletJournal, but now I can always have access to my thoughts. Plus you can easily import evernote into ON :)
If this helps anyone, Microsoft have recently ended security support for OneNote 2010. I personally find this version of Onenote superior to the newer versions (2016, 2019, 365). Due to the lack of security updates, I run Microsoft OneNote 2010 inside a virtual machine (you can run this inside VirtualBox, VMWare Workstation etc), disconnect the virtual network adapter and the end result is an secure, offline version of your Commonplace book. This one virtual machine is then backed-up daily and runs inside RAID 1 on a primary machine, there is redundency here. One could take this further with an off-site back-up of the virtual machine, in the event of a fire or disaster like backing-up your own Library of Alexandra. With the advancement of technology and operating systems, virtualizing the OS with OneNote 2010 you can easily transfer the virtual machine to a new device if needed. This may come in handy in 10 years time. I was recently on the quest to find a Linux alternative to Microsoft OneNote 2010, I hope there is a software product with the exact same functionality as OneNote 2010. If there is, I will be jumping off the springboard to the gold mine!
I am currently forced to use the Mac OSX because of programs like Logic Pro and QLab (which is used a lot in my school work). I found a decent alternative to OneNote. I have been using GrowlyNotes. It works very similar and cost only $5. You can get OneNote for free on a mac but you can only store your notes on Microsoft's cloud platform OneDrive. I like the idea of keeping everything local. The internet is always changing. You could link a video that get's taken down or a whole website might go down. Thanks again Leo!
I too use Office 2010 never updated after that version but I've never thought that One Note was better than Evernote. I started Using One Note 2010 after watching this video and I'm loving it. Still I miss to have cloud access because I sometimes read my 25 year vision in the morning before starting work. And now I moved it to Offline One Note 2010, still not a big deal.
I really need to do this. I have dozens and dozens of notebooks full of quotes and notes from the book I read and my analysis of them. These notes are useless essentially because they are dispersed and unorganized. Putting them all in one place like a commonplace boom would be excellent.
Really good advice to try and avoid the cloud based solutions for storage and also avoid subscription based software. The last thing you want is to lose access to your work because a company shuts down or discontinues the software you are using and have no way to migrate the data out of it easily, if you can even still access it. It would be like someone removing a chunk of your memory. If people go down the cloud route I'd say only use something that lets you take a local backup copy that you can also use locally if needed. I believe OneNote will let you do this. I'd also say with anything like this it would be a good idea to make regular multiple backups in case something goes wrong. It would be easy to end up with a large dataset and with lots of regular saving a problem is much more likely to happen, plus laptops can easily be lost/stolen. I wasn't aware of the term Commonplace Book. I've been trying to figure out something to do this but not been happy with the software I've tried. Most of the software is either task management based, journal based or more of a scrap book. A structured repository of information is what's needed. I'll have to give OneNote another look. Thanks for the ideas :-)
Thanks Leo for this video! I watched it in 2017 now i re watched it and since the my common place book has gotten unimaginably huge! I never thought that in 3 years it would get so dense! Thanks so much!!! :D
Hello Leo! I want to say thank you for all your hard work to help people find the truth with in them selfs. I've been working on my existencial vocabulary and found something extremely interesting about "matter" it is originated from mother., can you make a video about this? That would be so helpful
I severely underestimated the power of a commonplace book years ago when I first watched this video. I rediscovered the concept a little while ago and am now regretting how much time I wasted not having a commonplace book. The opportunity cost was horrendous for my creativity! Better late than never I guess. :) P.S I hate that Calibri font lol, Georgia font ftw.
Thank you so much, great idea. I used to journal on paper and save memo's on my phone, now that I downloaded the program I finally can combine everything into one place!
thank you so much for this. Just stumbled upon the channel. I didnt even realize I have OneNote included in my Office package I use. I am amazed by how easy the software is to use. If only Word would apply some of the principles it would be so much better..
Great Video Leo! I've been following you for about 2 years and you have had an huge impact on my personal development. So thanks for your massive work and keep on doing because you do extremely well. So taking notes is an important step in developing and I underestimated it quite long. But since I stared it, I always feel like it should be stored in one common place but never found the right application for it. OneNote looks extremely powerful but for some reason it's not as good as it used to be years ago. Even it's free, you cannot store your files on your Mac and running Windows for that would be an option but, since it's just a note takin app, I don't see any point in that. So for all Mac users I did some research and tried a couple of programs such as Outline, Evernote and even OneNote for Mac. What bothers me a lot is that none of them can handle complex tables which are my bread and butter in note taking. But I found sth. which suits me and it's even greater than I thought. all Mac users should check out Scrivener 3, which is actually an app for writers but it has extremely powerful organizing skills. It just costs around 45$ but I think it's worth spending it because at the end it will save you a lot of time. There is a 30 days trail version available. So I hope I could help some desperate Mac users, like me. I don't get any money from them so it's just my personal opinion since there is no better alternative when your structure gets a bit complex.
This is it. Thanks a lot Leo. I have been trying to have such journal on google drive. I thought that I was doing it poorly. Looks like I was too lazy to check alternatives.
I started to read through the comments because I had two questions thinking that others might have asked. Nope, maybe my questions are too simple, but here goes:1 what happens when you get hacked? 2. What happens when the power goes out... I mean all the power.? Unless there is a hard copy somewhere... hmmm. I'm just saying "keep a hard copy."
You went nicely into the history of it, but there's an aspect that you missed. The actual origin of the term commonplace. Commonplace books eventually became the source of index multi-dimensional scrapbook / journals. But the word commonplace actually comes from the tradition of classical rhetoric, a common place is a turn of phrase that's commonly on the tongues of people around you one of the aspects of good rhetoric is making use of pathos, and emotional appeal to audiences, and there are certain rhetorical techniques that evolve essentially using commonplace turns or phrase, things that people are commonly referring to. Because they're sort of shortcuts to influence. so a commonplace book would be a place that a thinker, an author, in order would jot down common places, so to speak, that he heard on the tongues of people in taverns are in markets, or else he was about as well as things collected from books, hence the copy work of taking extracts, excerpts from books and speeches, later newspapers and journals. This eventually evolved into a much larger sort of self-cycle PDF project. And it wasn't only done by enlightenment era thinkers and thinkers in the west. Aspects of commonplace bookkeeping, they'll call by other names, also existed in the middle east. And in the west of practice actually goes to the Middle ages. At least the late middle ages.the deeper one digs into their history, the deeper one goes into the history of Eurasian intellectual thought
I think this video is awesome....I find it hard to organise all the things I have in my computer and all the things written down from books journals..I'm on. Big like
I journal, I love my computer, but I also love paper. I need to figure out how I'll do this in my journals. Thank you for your video, though it was very informative!!
Use Notion.so instead of OneNote. Look up Agust Bradley's Life Operating System. The beauty of Notion is that you can go as deep as you want or just use it as a word processor. They made it free just recently.
Important Note: If you're wondering what happened to yesterday's video, I was forced to removed it because a few people started to abuse the amount of information it revealed. It turned out to contain too many spoilers. The original intent of the video was to show you my commonplace book but without people copying & sharing it word for word. That was a miscalculation on my part. This video is almost the same but with some spoilers taken out. Sorry, and thanks for understanding.
If you liked the old video, please click the like button again here, as the old video lost nearly 11,00 views and 1,000 likes :(
Actualized.org Cracking video, stayed up to watch it last night & delighted you've re-uploaded.
Thanks to this, I've ditched my hopes of buying a TV and PS4 next paycheck, and am buying a small laptop and OneNote software instead!
Maybe what happened is a good thing.
Aha! Glad it's back! Thank you! :) I have been searching for it (and thinking I lost my mind LOL), because the notification came through late last night (South Africa), and I saved it for early this morning.
Pre-mortem is the protip here. I hope this won't ruin your plans!
you shouldn't remove it
I find that after writing all my thoughts and feelings into a notebook before I go to bed, it helps calm my mind because it like this assurance that yes great these thoughts these feelings I am having are important/valued. That they are not going to be forgotten they are noted down here for tomorrow and decades to come and that really helps me in calming my mind.
It puts you into a state where the ultimate journal matters in a good way. You truly don't give a shit about anything and you're just happy as fuck as a result, because nothing matters. Nothing matters, nothing means anything, there's nothing to do, there's no point, there's no goal but there's also no boredom, there's no negative meanings attached to the meaninglessness, it's just perfectly meaningless and it's awesome. You're basically just like sitting like a cat on a windowsill enjoying whatever experience is before it, just being and it feels amazing.
Imagine a plethora of commonplace books that were built in this way. Decades after this video was shot. So many different perspectives that can change the world in so many beautiful & mind-blowing ways. All in a practical, readable way as well.
Wow. I've been a fairly creative and spontaneous note-taker for years now but this was a very golden tip. Huge injection of inspiration. My respect for Leo just grows and grows. Every Actualized video is like Christmas.
Leo!
I've been trying to organize my finds, insights and knowledge for 20 years (!), and never found anything that would be big enough, or organized enough, or expandable enough..
I am checking out the software while watching your video, and feel like I've just been handed the key to the magic cavern!
it's so cool! It's so uplifting!
Thank you!!!
Can you elaborate for a brother in need pls
I can't believe I've ignored this software for so long. This is exactly what I needed. Thanks Leo this is extremely powerful.
@Jericho Emerson bots
i dont mean to be so off topic but does anybody know a tool to get back into an Instagram account?
I was dumb lost my login password. I appreciate any tips you can give me!
@@beckettroland4285 I wish lol
I've been doing this since I was a child - I am currently keeping mine using the evernote app (which lets you insert graphics and attachments). I am still putting things together and will be doing so for the rest of my life.
I am happy to hear it is not just something I do that makes me weird but rather it is a natural impulse of those who live an intellectual life :)
Abigail T witch app are you using?
+Miche Bashizi "Evernote" app in the google play store
Hey Leo! I started journaling two days ago, like a diary and I thought this episode was going to be about that type of journaling. I felt very intimidated because I lack the confidence and always believed I wasn't smart enough to do this kind of work. I felt like I should stop watching but I pushed myself to with the mentality of "just listen and observe, treat it like mental seeds for the future, you don't have to do anything but just listen." I'm so glad I did and I felt like I really got to know you in a different light, we have so much more in common than I previously thought over the past year from reading your bullet notes. I think I will invest in this when this Covid subsides. I'm not very business-oriented and I'm not sure where my life is going, I'm currently in this cocoon phase of my development where I haven't really found people who resonate with me yet, I've been kind of a lone wolf for the time being. But I really feel that I can do a journal similar to this but probably more student-oriented, but that's open to change down the road. I think I'm going to start with your life purpose course after I read this book A Course in Miracles. Anyways, so happy I find you last year!! This video was really a huge surprise to me and I feel like it sparked some passion in me. Thank you! 🌈💚🐢😇
Thank you so much Leo! I have so many video summary's, school notes, aspirational quotes, goals etc that I have all stored randomly on my macbook's 'Notepad'. You literally have saved my life from spiralling out of control. I have onenote on my macbook this whole time which I just haven't utilized. Everything is falling in to place now and becoming organised and I don't need to stress about something I may have forgotton, as I am currently in the process of making my Commonplace book. I absolutely love the videos you make, watching this while I had breakfast this morning. I'm in the middle of my exams and this is helping my out so much with organising absolutely everything! So thank you so much for the time and effort you spent in making this video!
I never realized that I've been using this software before until I revisited it again thanks to this video! Thanks Leo!
Woooow, this just changed my life. I already started to write down every insight and info I find and think of, started my commonplace book years ago. The only problem is that I simply made a l library of simple folders with in folders with in folders by categories, and have a lott of random notepads for everything. And then a lot of information down each notepad, and when it goes too long I start a new notepad for the same topic at times and continue. And It grew huge, and veery hard to articulate my self around it. Wish I had this program when I started!
My life's information is a stack of about a thousand notepads scattered at all places.
I feel a childlike and creative energy from you and I like it.
Leo, I had a commonplace book even before you posted the video, I just didn't have a name for it. Now I do! Thank you for giving me some extra tips that I will use.
Starting my journal today! Hope it will look as holy as the thumbnail.
Michael Lost me too!
How's it going so far?
you still doing it?
This is what i've been looking for for all this time! Thanx leo!
Great vid. I have been doing this with notebooks for 50 some years. Hundreds of notebooks. Didn't have a name for what I have been doing. I have used my insights for creating 20 companies in the last forty years. Spread the word for recording insights and knowledge.
Wow this is fantastic, absolutely amazingly perfect program, ive been using paper for years, can"t believe i havent figured this one out yet! Thx a lot leo for this one!
RedCap Dupga which app are you using now?
microsoft onenote :D
Good Lord. I've had this program for years, and never tried it because I didn't know it was any good or had any of these features. Probably the single most important free video I've seen this year. Thanks for the value Leo.
Leo I feel so ashamed. You made such radical change in my life that I don't know how to pay you back. Really I feel i owe you more than rest of the people in the world.
Man I just wanna say thank you from the deepest place in my heart.❤
My pleasure
Long time OneNote user here. Yes, do not underestimate this program! Mobile app version is also available on all major mobile platforms. They also have a web app version which you can access from any browser. On desktop I use 2013 version and I confirm it can work on local files.
Hi, to conclude- does 2013 need any web access, or can it be used fully offline? thanks
Tried, works offline.
What about Evernote? I've been using it for 2 years & it words great. Is it worth to switch on OneNote?
Haven't really used Evernote, so can't tell you much about it.
Does this mean that it holds storage both on local files and on a Cloud?
thank you for sharing your commonplace book with us. You sound really friendly on the demo part, like it was a whole different Leo.
lol :P
Agreed. There was a certain friendliness coming off of that. :)
Wow, life brings to you your next step when you are ready. I have about 6 different notebooks going on plus my calendar as I try to record lessons from books I am reading, sketches, pictures, meditations, numerology etc. etc. Finally my next step. What a great present! Thank you once and again for Actualized.org and YOU.
The amount of value you put into peoples lives, all for free. Wow, you are a saint
I strongly recommend Notion for note-taking. I've tried everything from Notes app on Mac, Evernote, Wikis my company has used, etc, but Notion has come out far ahead of the pack. You get instant search for anything with "cmd + k" and it's a pleasure to edit/move things around. It feels like the app has been made to get out of your way and let you write.
www.notion.so
Note: I'm not sponsored/affiliated with Notion. Just love the product.
Hey Leo, I started the same exact kind of note book in 2012 on my own, just because I was having so many different creative ideas. During that time I've written over 380k words, or about 900 pages of purely creative and new ideas. But, its not very organized and thats something I want to do one day, but now since its so massive it will be quite time consuming. I also find that I don't have time do do anything with all of this accumulated knowledge because I think of new ideas constantly all day long, and then I have to write those down. So, I'm too buys thinking of new ideas and incites to go back and organize or do anything with it. Your right, it never ends and just speeds up overtime.
Maybe you need to turn off the idea generator for a couple of weeks so you can organize all of that shit? Otherwise, well how will you find anything? What good would it be for you or anyone without organization?? The whole point of One Note would be to prevent rambling & losing track of it. I can already do rambling with Sublime text. Write a bunch of shit down, never find it. Although I can use findstr from CMD prompt to search all my notes, but I would then need to know what it is I'm searching for. Perhaps OneNote has some searching mechanism.
It might be best to export all your existing notes out of OneNote, start with a clean slate & start setting up the books & tabs. Then start pulling in data from your exported notebooks to copy into the right places.
Why thank you Leo. You have sparked that OneNote fire I had about a year ago. I have quite a bit of notes on it and you have inspired me to keep at it! Thank you and for all that you do, have a good one!
ok man, I'm running a full commonplace book now, in onenote just like you. It has allowed me to integrate my journal and all my projects and notes in one place. The links you can make between documents are amazing, and it gives you the chance to really get a solid life overview because of the tiers of organisation. Thanks!
I am finally beginning to use this, though not exactly as recommended, but close. If anyone was thinking they’d be ok with keeping their CB in the cloud, it doesn’t seem like a terrible idea. I just realized Google Drive has interlinking, continuous saving, and multiple document types. Although it’s missing the multi-tool aspect of each sheet, I think it might work for me. I am trying this with my iPad but listened to Leo’s advice about a real keyboard, which is right on. Being able to type accurately and fast is key. The brand Zagg makes a bluetooth keyboard case that I’m finding really great, and with iPad mini, I can carry this thing in a cargo pocket or of course backpack anywhere I go. I am loving this idea in general and I’m already finding that the act of putting things in and of interlinking does something akin to handwriting in helping me make mental connections that parallel the links. Many thanks Leo!!!
I’ve been waiting for a video like this for such a long time. Thanks Leo, much value here once again!
hi Mr Leo. awesome channel you've got here. my experience with trying to make a commonplace book is whenever I start my mind never stops. I can't sleep because my mind races off into creativity. I have even resorted to put it under my pillow and wake up at odd hours to write. I had to put an end to it. but overall it was an enjoyable experience.
Hi Leo! It's been a while already and I'm just passing here to add my feedback as this tool is really amazing. I'm still using it since them and it helps me to keep things much more organized and then I'm able to reach the information that I want much faster and also work on then when I have some insights. Using it in my personal and work life.
[UK, May 2023]
Loved this - a fantastic piece on a subject not easy to bring too much new to. Subscribed - just off the back of this video - & of course the purpose & outlook of the channel. 👍🏽👍🏽
I already have it, and its so similar to what leo described. This give me so much confidence that i m going in right direction.
PS: i call it my life console or my life dashboard
2nd PS: i also made it on OneNote
Thank you for this! I had never even heard of a commonplace book until someone (briefly and indirectly) mentioned it in another video. When I went to seek out more information, your video came up.
I don't know that this is something I'd have the energy/inclination to do. But I found it all fascinating. What I'd really like to do is find some of these types of books that people have kept in years past! When you mentioned that at the start of the video, my mind went wild. I'm way too lazy to do this for myself. But I would love to see what others have done with it!
Again, thank you. This has been a revelation. I can't believe I had never heard of this concept or even the term.
I just eventually came to use two journals whithout particularly planning it out. The digital one is more private for deeper ramblings and self reflection, while the paper notebook is more a journal for logging life events to look back on.
I feel like Leo did this video more like a Blog. I would focus more on the topics of writing the notes than on showing my personal way of doing it. But again this maybe is helpful for people who dont have any idea from where to start. Alot of people probably will try to replicate his Commonplace book ,starting from buying a laptop like his. I think using OneNote is the main advice in first place. I am using it on my phone , and since im carrying it everywhere , i can always add something emmediately.
I really appreciate the videos you put out here. They are a tad long but they are definitely worth the length. Last night I was laying down thinking about trying to start writing in a journal again, so this video really came in clutch. I like your response in the last part of the video: people need to actualize themselves without it being spoon-fed, including myself.
You are a great inspiration to me and to others. Keep on doing what you are great at: helping people create a beautiful mind
Thank you very much! This was really a piece of jewel! I was always carrying 3 paper-notebooks with me. Guess One-Note would be smarter. Very useful!
This was an invaluable episode for me, many thanks Leo! ❤
OH MY GOSH!! This was so helpful and very timely for my life right now!! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!!!
Leo you have changed my life for ever. Thank you.
I was previously using google docs to write all this kind of stuff down. It's starting to get too hard to keep track of everything so this will really come in handy. You're a Godsend, Leo :)
after watching this i realized Leo is just a normal guy.
Define what normal guy is?
Congratz, that's a super healthy realization.
What a surprise..
You mean we have no excuses ? 🥲😁
Thank you SO much Leo. I always wanted to started a journal but never found the right app and I hated One Note 16. Now I have One Note 10 and it's perfect. Thank You Thank You Thank You
I've been waiting for this video from Leo for couple of months now. So excited to watch!
This is exactly what I've been looking for and wondering about lately. Synchronicity. Thank you so much Leo.
Wow, after all these years, I never knew what OneNote was lol, now I do i've got tons of Word documents to copy into it! Why did I not know about this powerful piece of software!! Thank you Leo
Oh good! I wanted to watch the rest of the video after getting onenote. :) Great video!
Wouldn't recommend using it JUST locally. What if you accidentally lose your laptop on a train or the hard drive goes haywire? your entire life's work is gone down the shitter. I have one note with cloud. Even if I lose my primary source of input, all of my data is still backed up and can be restored when I buy a new PC/laptop.
Thank you for reminding of this!
Problem is that there's no such thing as 'the cloud'. There's only a bunch of hard drives you don't own, maintained by people you don't know. Ideally, you'd have a copy locally AND somewhere in the cloud. But whatever you use, make sure you can use it locally, even if you use it in the cloud most of the time. Cuz you never know when they're gonna kill a cloud app, and then you're shit out of luck.
Oh, and unless it's encrypted, don't store ANYTHING in the cloud that you wouldn't want in tomorrow morning's headlines.
Thank you for sharing this video. I got so much value from it. I am now using onenote and have really cleaned up a ton of my thoughts. Feels awesome to have organized things more cleanly.
Tai López at 10:20 ...
Lol 😂
OMG this may change my life I have been trying to bullet journalling but the kids keep getting into now I can go back to digital and just keep an art journal.
You should occasionally back this up on an external harddrive so you dont lose everything if your laptop fails.
What if they decide not to support onenote anymore? Can it be opened with another program?
I feel like keeping a journal like how you describe in this video will be fun.
Arigatou Guru Gura.
"Thanks a lot" you meant to say right?
So this is what it is called - commonplace book. Yup, I've been using OneNote that way. Also my Galaxy Note 8 is a godsend - yes, I used its fantastic pen to write what's on my mind in OneNote.
Never thought before how amazing this application. Thank's for showing it's abilities!
Awesome video Leo! I'm searching out OneNote as I'm watching this.. I bought an analog journal earlier this year to write in all the different learnings I've been coming across, though soon found it difficult to categorize and organize so much information into a linear book despite making topic separations. This tutorial is perfect and I love how it is the next level of what I was already being compelled to do. Love love love your work!!
Thank you, tried to use word before but as the limitations shot it down I gave up, this seems so perfect. Much aprociated!
I started a notebook 4 days ago and didn't know what to write. Hopefully watching this will help
I just ordered One Note from ebay. I'm going to give this a try. Great video, thanks alot.
How's your experiece with it so far?
@@merlijn1722 I liked it until my computer had a problem & I lost everything that I had spent so much time entering. I had it organized well & it was user friendly. I went back to paper. In the back of my mind I knew to never trust the computer.
@@nancyw8341 ah that sucks, bud. do you think it was a problem with the propgram or just your computer? I'll make sure to copy on a USB drive just in case. That's the thing about computers, right? It's fantastic technology but it's very intangible and if something goes wrong you lose so much at once. Thanks warning me
@@merlijn1722 It was just my computer. It was getting old. I should have been saving on my external hard drive more often but I don't know how to (hubby does it for me) and I lost months of good stuff. You should be OK if you keep backing your stuff up.
Thank you for sharing all these information with us, Leo! That is exactly what I needed since I recently started to get a bit tangled up with all my word documents and analog diaries. So relieving and kind of clearing up the mental mess to have everything in one place. Very kind and helpful of you! :)
thank you for the advise at the end leo
One thing you can do to boost the usefulness and ease of use for your commonplace book is record notes with voice recognition on your phone and then just email it to your computer of which you have your commonplace book if you can't take your main device with you
I've been needing this for the last five years! I wish I had everything so organized. Scrivener is my candidate for this. It's where I wrote my novel, syncs across platforms, and is a joy to use.
15:32 I literally almost spit out my drink when he was going on about how you need a good old fashioned keyboard. A lot of people these days can tap out on a touchscreen keyboard as fast as, or faster than, I can type on a real one (and I'm quite fluent in QWERTY touch typing). I share Leo's personal preference, but times change.
My typing does not follow the fastness of my thoughts 🙄. I prefer a read keyboard too.
I wonder when mental keyboard will com out when you can literally think and jot it down
10 % of humankid abuses the other 90 % (corupted politics, narcistic bosses, ....)
We should unite and fight against this abuse.
Leo would be the perfect intelectual leader for this!
I highly recommend the latest version, which is for free by Microsoft. First, I thought that it is not so cool because the tabs are all on the side, but I love the cloud solution and that you can access it from anywhere. That's a major plus, I used to do the BulletJournal, but now I can always have access to my thoughts. Plus you can easily import evernote into ON :)
I implemented this immediatly, just what i needed, thanks Leo.
If this helps anyone, Microsoft have recently ended security support for OneNote 2010. I personally find this version of Onenote superior to the newer versions (2016, 2019, 365). Due to the lack of security updates, I run Microsoft OneNote 2010 inside a virtual machine (you can run this inside VirtualBox, VMWare Workstation etc), disconnect the virtual network adapter and the end result is an secure, offline version of your Commonplace book. This one virtual machine is then backed-up daily and runs inside RAID 1 on a primary machine, there is redundency here. One could take this further with an off-site back-up of the virtual machine, in the event of a fire or disaster like backing-up your own Library of Alexandra.
With the advancement of technology and operating systems, virtualizing the OS with OneNote 2010 you can easily transfer the virtual machine to a new device if needed. This may come in handy in 10 years time.
I was recently on the quest to find a Linux alternative to Microsoft OneNote 2010, I hope there is a software product with the exact same functionality as OneNote 2010. If there is, I will be jumping off the springboard to the gold mine!
thank you ive been having so much trouble trying to figure out hat the hell happened to it
Leo's book will be a bestseller!
I am currently forced to use the Mac OSX because of programs like Logic Pro and QLab (which is used a lot in my school work). I found a decent alternative to OneNote. I have been using GrowlyNotes. It works very similar and cost only $5. You can get OneNote for free on a mac but you can only store your notes on Microsoft's cloud platform OneDrive. I like the idea of keeping everything local. The internet is always changing. You could link a video that get's taken down or a whole website might go down.
Thanks again Leo!
I too use Office 2010 never updated after that version but I've never thought that One Note was better than Evernote. I started Using One Note 2010 after watching this video and I'm loving it. Still I miss to have cloud access because I sometimes read my 25 year vision in the morning before starting work. And now I moved it to Offline One Note 2010, still not a big deal.
got my MacBook Air today. now to start journaling. so excited!!!
I always believed in you Leo no matter what people says, I am getting my new Mac book to start my ultimate journal.
Thank goodness! This video is the first thing I looked for this morning 😀 Thanks so much for all of your great research and videos 🌞
Moi Aussi Thanks for making me laugh this morning 👍😂
I really need to do this. I have dozens and dozens of notebooks full of quotes and notes from the book I read and my analysis of them. These notes are useless essentially because they are dispersed and unorganized. Putting them all in one place like a commonplace boom would be excellent.
pure gold about "abstractness"
Dear Leo, thank you for sharing, you really are radiating love more each day :)
65 Core principles brought me here. 3 time on that video and im finally actually sitting down to start this.
Really good advice to try and avoid the cloud based solutions for storage and also avoid subscription based software.
The last thing you want is to lose access to your work because a company shuts down or discontinues the software you are using and have no way to migrate the data out of it easily, if you can even still access it. It would be like someone removing a chunk of your memory.
If people go down the cloud route I'd say only use something that lets you take a local backup copy that you can also use locally if needed. I believe OneNote will let you do this.
I'd also say with anything like this it would be a good idea to make regular multiple backups in case something goes wrong. It would be easy to end up with a large dataset and with lots of regular saving a problem is much more likely to happen, plus laptops can easily be lost/stolen.
I wasn't aware of the term Commonplace Book. I've been trying to figure out something to do this but not been happy with the software I've tried. Most of the software is either task management based, journal based or more of a scrap book. A structured repository of information is what's needed. I'll have to give OneNote another look.
Thanks for the ideas :-)
Thanks Leo for this video! I watched it in 2017 now i re watched it and since the my common place book has gotten unimaginably huge! I never thought that in 3 years it would get so dense! Thanks so much!!! :D
What app do you use?
Hello Leo!
I want to say thank you for all your hard work to help people find the truth with in them selfs.
I've been working on my existencial vocabulary and found something extremely interesting about "matter" it is originated from mother., can you make a video about this? That would be so helpful
I severely underestimated the power of a commonplace book years ago when I first watched this video. I rediscovered the concept a little while ago and am now regretting how much time I wasted not having a commonplace book. The opportunity cost was horrendous for my creativity! Better late than never I guess. :)
P.S I hate that Calibri font lol, Georgia font ftw.
Thanks a lot leo I am grateful to your content
Thank you so much, great idea. I used to journal on paper and save memo's on my phone, now that I downloaded the program I finally can combine everything into one place!
thanks leo, sorry people abused the information before. you're awesome!
thank you so much for this. Just stumbled upon the channel. I didnt even realize I have OneNote included in my Office package I use. I am amazed by how easy the software is to use. If only Word would apply some of the principles it would be so much better..
Great Video Leo! I've been following you for about 2 years and you have had an huge impact on my personal development. So thanks for your massive work and keep on doing because you do extremely well. So taking notes is an important step in developing and I underestimated it quite long. But since I stared it, I always feel like it should be stored in one common place but never found the right application for it. OneNote looks extremely powerful but for some reason it's not as good as it used to be years ago. Even it's free, you cannot store your files on your Mac and running Windows for that would be an option but, since it's just a note takin app, I don't see any point in that. So for all Mac users I did some research and tried a couple of programs such as Outline, Evernote and even OneNote for Mac. What bothers me a lot is that none of them can handle complex tables which are my bread and butter in note taking. But I found sth. which suits me and it's even greater than I thought. all Mac users should check out Scrivener 3, which is actually an app for writers but it has extremely powerful organizing skills. It just costs around 45$ but I think it's worth spending it because at the end it will save you a lot of time. There is a 30 days trail version available. So I hope I could help some desperate Mac users, like me. I don't get any money from them so it's just my personal opinion since there is no better alternative when your structure gets a bit complex.
This is it. Thanks a lot Leo. I have been trying to have such journal on google drive. I thought that I was doing it poorly. Looks like I was too lazy to check alternatives.
Thank you so much Leo....I love this so much n m gettn started rt away....I never knew abt onenote till now...thanks a ton again.....
I started to read through the comments because I had two questions thinking that others might have asked. Nope, maybe my questions are too simple, but here goes:1 what happens when you get hacked? 2. What happens when the power goes out... I mean all the power.? Unless there is a hard copy somewhere... hmmm. I'm just saying "keep a hard copy."
37:52 - "It just works" -Todd Howard
Wow! I was sorting out my millions of notes and books...and then this video appeared. How weird is that...
You went nicely into the history of it, but there's an aspect that you missed. The actual origin of the term commonplace. Commonplace books eventually became the source of index multi-dimensional scrapbook / journals. But the word commonplace actually comes from the tradition of classical rhetoric, a common place is a turn of phrase that's commonly on the tongues of people around you one of the aspects of good rhetoric is making use of pathos, and emotional appeal to audiences, and there are certain rhetorical techniques that evolve essentially using commonplace turns or phrase, things that people are commonly referring to. Because they're sort of shortcuts to influence. so a commonplace book would be a place that a thinker, an author, in order would jot down common places, so to speak, that he heard on the tongues of people in taverns are in markets, or else he was about as well as things collected from books, hence the copy work of taking extracts, excerpts from books and speeches, later newspapers and journals. This eventually evolved into a much larger sort of self-cycle PDF project. And it wasn't only done by enlightenment era thinkers and thinkers in the west. Aspects of commonplace bookkeeping, they'll call by other names, also existed in the middle east. And in the west of practice actually goes to the Middle ages. At least the late middle ages.the deeper one digs into their history, the deeper one goes into the history of Eurasian intellectual thought
I think this video is awesome....I find it hard to organise all the things I have in my computer and all the things written down from books journals..I'm on. Big like
I journal, I love my computer, but I also love paper. I need to figure out how I'll do this in my journals. Thank you for your video, though it was very informative!!
liked and subscribed btw
Use Notion.so instead of OneNote. Look up Agust Bradley's Life Operating System. The beauty of Notion is that you can go as deep as you want or just use it as a word processor. They made it free just recently.
did not know Lex Luthor was a youtuber