The vast majority of notebooks I use are filled with quotes gleaned from books I've read over the years. Page one will be an index for individual titles & the relevant page numbers. I started out using Moleskine A5 sized books, then transitioned to using notebooks I made myself. The covers became a medium for all sorts of decorative artwork, everything from suminigashi and hitomezashi to silhouettes and Lindenmeyer systems. A few months back, I acquired a stack of manila paper & have made a couple or A6 sized books with that. It's a great way for several of my interests, writing, crude bookbinding, and artwork, to converge.
So informative! Thank you. With multiple inserts in your TN, do you remove inserts to use them in order for them to lay flat when writing? How do you navigate that?
A friend gave me a small book by Epictetus and it’s on my 2025 list to go through it and really reflect on what the writings mean to me. Perhaps I should use one of my Many notebooks to do that!
I started one last year with quotes from books and tv/movies. I rarely have it with me, so I usually just take a screenshot on my phone (I read a lot through the Libby app from the library) and then never get around to transcribing them. I am endlessly disappointed in myself.
I forgot to mention the book I use. My friend is a leatherworker and artist (and brilliant at whatever else he tries his hand at), and I have a Peter Pauper Press sketchbook with a leather cover from him. He carved and painted Lon Chaney as the Wolfman on it, and it is gorgeous!
Excellent video! you have renewed my commitment to wanting to start a commonplace book. I’ve had a bit of a one in my bullet journal for years, but never so focused and your system is very inspiring.
The vast majority of notebooks I use are filled with quotes gleaned from books I've read over the years. Page one will be an index for individual titles & the relevant page numbers. I started out using Moleskine A5 sized books, then transitioned to using notebooks I made myself. The covers became a medium for all sorts of decorative artwork, everything from suminigashi and hitomezashi to silhouettes and Lindenmeyer systems. A few months back, I acquired a stack of manila paper & have made a couple or A6 sized books with that. It's a great way for several of my interests, writing, crude bookbinding, and artwork, to converge.
great video. I am using a Rhoda comp book as I attempt to make a commonplace notebook for myself. Thanks
So informative! Thank you. With multiple inserts in your TN, do you remove inserts to use them in order for them to lay flat when writing? How do you navigate that?
A friend gave me a small book by Epictetus and it’s on my 2025 list to go through it and really reflect on what the writings mean to me. Perhaps I should use one of my Many notebooks to do that!
I started one last year with quotes from books and tv/movies. I rarely have it with me, so I usually just take a screenshot on my phone (I read a lot through the Libby app from the library) and then never get around to transcribing them.
I am endlessly disappointed in myself.
I forgot to mention the book I use. My friend is a leatherworker and artist (and brilliant at whatever else he tries his hand at), and I have a Peter Pauper Press sketchbook with a leather cover from him. He carved and painted Lon Chaney as the Wolfman on it, and it is gorgeous!
Excellent video! you have renewed my commitment to wanting to start a commonplace book. I’ve had a bit of a one in my bullet journal for years, but never so focused and your system is very inspiring.
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