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On the subject of language learning, I agree with you that we should all learn a language. I learnt Arabic when I spent three years as a clinical instructor with the Saudi Arabian army. I love being able to converse with someone in their own language... a real sign of respect.
Hey, just wanted to say that through you I finally figured out how journaling works for me! I was always so overwhelmed with people promoting these beautiful and aesthetic and colourful journals but now I got myself a small pocket notebook and I just write in it with black pen whenever I have a thought I'd like to keep :). It's been helping loads with my anxiety and I just want to thank you for that!!
That's the way to do it. A proper journal doesn't have to be clean and good looking. It's something you use on a daily basis, so it's supposed to be simple as it should be normal for it to look used and maybe a bit messy. People showing those very beautiful, colourful journals are too much about perfection from my point of view. However I get the point that maybe it's also a motivation for them to make it look good - for me though it only builds up pressure (in terms of living up to the standard). And tbh. I kinda got to the point where I even like the messy, kinda worn down look. It shows I used it, it lived and it feels good to see that. Sometimes though, when I have really important stuff in there I write it in an extra journal so I can elaborate on things a little further and read it more easily (because I sometimes struggle to read my own handwriting)
📓 The fact that history of common placebook is so rich is just mind - boggling. How is it possible that simple notebook has so much philosophy behind it? Just captivating.
I’ve only watched a few of your videos and I feel like I’ve finally found someone who can accurately articulate the things that constantly float around in my brain. Your explanation of knowledge in this video almost felt like someone was breathing fresh air for me. Thank you for your content, I for one am benefiting a ton from it.
Respectfully, as a fully Spanish/English bilingual person and a former homeschool educator, keeping a notebook can be an invaluable tool for language learning acquisition. The physical act of writing things down helps to cement concepts in one's mind. Anecdotally, there have been many times when I''ve had total recall of something I'm trying to remember simply because I wrote it down. Regarding language learning, a commonplace book can be home to vocabulary, conjugations, phrases, diction, dialect learning, phonetic learning. Once the basics are covered, one can copy down quoloquial phrases, quotes, phrases, book passages, you name it, and translate them; paying attention to language mechanics. Now, of course, there must be practical listening and verbal experience that must also accompany the learning, maybe not immediately but definitely eventually. Just my dos centavos.
In German class we used to do an activity where we had a text in German stuck on the wall behind us and you had to stand up memorize a chunk then go back to the desk and write it down without the original. It was interesting what aspects of grammar / spelling I and others made when I copy out quotes even in English - others are in French, German, Chinese, Greek and Gurmukhi (the language used in the Guru Granth Sahib Ji - the scriptures of the Sikhs) I do the same process of looking, putting down then writing out and checking It helps retention and learning for me.
The "genus/species" + Punnet Square demonstration of differentia was SO HELPFUL in understanding what a commonplace book might be for. This makes the idea of starting one MUCH less daunting, because it's easy to say, "this is X type of book, not Y type of book, and that's okay." Thank you for this!
I can't believe I only learned about the concept of "commonplace books" this week, of turning 63 years old. I've actually got one -- never knew it had a name, however. Sadly, it's packed away with a lot of my other stuff, having to relocate quickly after my sister/housemate passed away. So I've started a new, better-organized one. I looked up John Locke, after hearing about him on Jared's channel. Glad I discovered that AND your channel.
I wish I saw this before commenting basically the same thing lol When I heard printed I thought literally printed so idk about you guys but I think any word is better than printed
I've been doing this my whole adult life, and didn't know about Common Place Books at all. It just makes sense to me to aggregate and analyze certain topics all in one place. Plus I love pens and ink, and books. So it just evolved naturally.
Great video¡ I have been taking notes on pieces of paper and then notebooks for a long time and realized that it helps me a lot because thats how I work, and I´ve been wanting to do it in a more organized way. This is probably the fifth video I´ve seen in a row about the subject and it was the best (it made me take notes). Thanks
📓I am really new to "commonplace" notebooks, and your channel came up for me in the algorithm. I didn't know that king of notebook had a "name". A couple days ago I watched one of your videos where you were talking about having different commonplace books for different topics, and in that video you mentioned your "diary" that must be burned upon your death. That video was so helpful to me, and I finally "got it". I have now started three commonplace books (moleskine 2024 daily) two are pocket size and one is a large size to add my own thoughts. Thank you very much for these explanations. I get it now!! 😄
I've never heard of commonplace books but i think the idea of keeping your favorite quotes all in one place is great. I read a lot of different books and I always mark my favorite quotes and passages with post its, so i will definitely start one to collect them. Maybe you could call the 'printed' commonplace book an anthology of sorts?
Thanks for this! I'm still resistant to 'anthology' because I'm trying to get clear on what the term really picks out. Been thinking about it for a while. Still gotta chew on it more. Thank you!
Yes, journaling has found some added steam lately. So much anxiety around social media is driving a resurgence of all things analog. I for one am using journaling to center and ground my chaotic mind a bit. I work in a tech role and disconnecting my digital attention for a bit of self-reflection is improving my mood; and sleep of all things.
Yes! I am a tech fan, rapidly moving back to writing on paper and hand made art, drawn, painted and inked. Mark making is a great way to center yourself, whether through words or drawing, abstract or realistic figures.
📓 thank you! I’ve been struggling to find a rhythm between journaling, learning, and capturing thoughts on myself and feelings and your videos have been very helpful to show me different pathways than cramming all these matters in one notebook! I appreciate what you’re doing for us :)
Another brilliant video. I always appreciate the time you spend finding the history on such things to share with us, I always make notes, and it increases my knowledge base as well. It also helps that I am an avid collector of notebooks:D
Love this more in depth info about commonplace books. I have three of them without knowing they were called commonplace. I got a pocket notebook now for quotes too, but to carry it everywhere, and for it to substitute phone use. Love the idea of carrying the commonplace book everywhere.
📓I use a "Common Place Book" for each book that I am presently reading (as a fellow philosopher/theologian I usually read more than one book at a time). Each one is a combination of your "printed" and "manuscript" species. I do the same thing if I am researching a specific topic and reading articles and book snippets for the purpose of writing a sermon or article on the specific topic or scripture. I use an 11 ring note book (size A4) with pages that I can rearrange as I begin to formulate a specific topic or response. When I finish the book or topic, the pages get put into a file folder and are filed. But it is great to learn how others arrange their note organizing and thought processes - Thanks.
Yes, journaling has found some added steam lately. So much anxiety around social media is driving a resurgence of all things analog. I for one am using journaling to center and ground my chaotic mind a bit. I work in a tech role and disconnecting my digital attention for a bit of self-reflection is improving my mood; and sleep of all things.
📓 After watching a video you had made regarding a CPB for quotes; I had been in deep thought over what it could be called. Unexpectedly, while watching a Ryan Holiday video on Epictetus, he mentions a book of his called the Enchiridion. That won me over once I delved more into its meaning. Of course you can use whatever you want, but that's what I'm calling mine! Love your videos!
There's a lot of people saying "OK, so a commonplace book is just a notebook." It's true to an extent. It's a type of notebook. You may also have a notebook for specific purposes like writing poetry, doodling or whatever you choose to do when you put pen to paper. The purpose of a commonplace book tends to be a "thinking" notebook. You put down any unprocessed thoughts and you process them through the pages. From there, you can leave the insights in the commonplace book or move them to a place where they are more easily searchable (e.g. a digital medium). To say "it's just a notebook with a fancy name" is to miss the point.
📔 I found the differences between the two tricky. I think "transcribed" is a good alternative to printed. I have a general manuscripted commonplace book I use, but this is giving me an idea to make a specific one about art techniques. Cheers!
📓 awesome video, you’ve helped me tremendously with figuring out how to keep a journal and what to do with my loads of barely-used notebooks around my room. Thank you again!
Favorite Quotes. I've always wanted to start a commonplace book but just didn't know how or what to write in it. A book of my favorite quotes is perfect. Thank you.
I genuinely wish I had discovered this concept at the beginning of my PhD studies. I'm using a grounded theory methodology, and there's a lot of focus on "memoing" where you write about your methodological process, your observations of the data, your theoretical development and then use those in the development of your theory, theoretical framework and resulting manuscript. I always felt a bit weird about memoing, it never really felt natural to me mainly because I couldn't wrap my head around the concept. Treating memoing like a specific manuscript CPB would give a great framework for people who are learning to use grounded theory in research projects. Thanks for the informative video - would definitely love to see a video that goes more in-depth into the specific manuscript CPB.
📓 This is such an awesome breakdown of commonplacing. It seemed like a funny concept to me when I started seeingbit pop up amongs the journal/planner community ❤
Oh I'm so glad! I'd been doing it by myself for like 10 years. Then I discovered lots more people were doing it here on TH-cam but saw people calling it a fad so I wanted to explain CPBs in more detail to give them their due
I use a zettlekasten through obsidian for manuscripting and keeping quotes attached to their specific subjects and other ideas, but I’ve been keeping a printed general CPB to replace my phone bc of your videos 🌻
📓I really only keep a general printed commonplace book, although I might start a specific one this year. And watching this made me realize that some of my digital databases would be the manuscript type if I kept them in physical form, which I am tempted to do but I couldn't give up the accessibility across devices the way I currently use it.
I move pieces from my analog specifics to digital copies often but writing it first helps me metabolize the info more. Sorry for 'metabolize' haven't found a better word yet
@@ParkerNotes Lol, it makes sense though! That was how I prepared when I was in grad school, I'm just haven't put the same effort into my personal interests!
12:05 ... *Cerebri Studiis* or *Cerebri Studiorum* (Cerebral Pursuits) "cerebral" typically means that someone is intellectual, thoughtful, and inclined towards using their intellect rather than their emotions. It suggests that someone is more interested in mental activities and pursuits than physical ones.
Thank you , you helped me with my 'deep thoughts' journal as a writer, now I'm going to start a manuscript Common Place 📖 for article ideas on a specific topic. Yes, ✔️ I'd like more videos on each book. Much love from Europe 💁🏽
Great video, as always delivering big chunks of wisdom and knowledge in an easy to digest format. By the way.. Could another word for the "printed" category be "distilled"?
Possible alternative to "printed" is "collective." Where I'm at in my (early) common-placing is that I don't differentiate between manuscript and printed, yet. I do differentiate general and specific, though. I figure as I go along I'll get a feel for how I want to handle things and adjust as needed. 📓
How about Quotidian Commonplace Book. It means either daily or ordinary, which both work, but it’s a pun on “quotations” which is what’s being collected in a “printed”commonplace book.
That is absolutely brilliant Parker. I thoroughly enjoyed that presentation. With my philosophical notes, and because I keep all my books and articles, I record just the reference of where to find a quote, and the topic area where I would use it... For example using the example you gave about syllogisms and consciousness, I would write the syllogism by Chalmers and then a series of references to support it. Then the syllogism by our mutual friend Keith Frankish and supporting references. Two separate notebooks may be used for two competing arguments. Thank you again Parker. Best wishes.
that's interesting. A similar concept is present in programming world, but it's called a technical journal. Basically the idea is the same, you write stuff that has to do with your work, ideas, theories, concepts, your deadline estimations etc.
📓I don't know man. I was happy with my "General manuscript CPB" but now you've given me ideas... Might be a time to visit a store and acquire more notebooks 😂
Hey man love the videos. The word you're looking for at @9:50 is either Florilegium or Anthology. Both mean the same thing, just depends if you want a latin or greek flair to the name.
I use Florilegium for my pocket Commonplace book and hadn't thought of it for this one, I'm still working through how Infeel about 'anthology' since it has a meaning I don't like in music and literature. I'm leaning towards calling it a 'treasury' but Florilegium could be the one! Thanks for helping me see it in a new light!
on an older video I thought to bash you about the handwriting (I kept it inside) ... but after actually having a commonplace book I understand that it is not possible to have good handwriting when you are out and about. :D Still if you have a desk and are not in a rush, then there's no excuse :D. I recommend the youtube channel CJ's Creative Studio (see his 2 most popular videos about cursive handwriting) Improved my handwriting a lot given that I come from a place where we use the Cyrillic alphabet. We are not thought to write latin letters in cursive. It's not a huge deal, but it doesn't take that much of an effort to write beautifully either :D
Haha I appreciate this comment so much!! This is the perfect way to bash in love lol. I'm so much more likely to listen if there's some understanding and teasing. I will check this out, I've been meaning to work on it. My mom is an occupational therapist and has been trying to teach me all my life
📓 Great Video. Will probably start using my own quote book as I have loads in multiple places (paper and digital) but making my own book for this is a good idea . Thankyou
Sounds like the spiral-bound flip-over pocket notebooks I used in jr. high and high school to keep track of assignments, sometimes, but more often to keep track of notes and ideas of mine and of others. I used it to try out creative pursuits like creating a simple nonsense comic strip, to learn to work with binary numbers because as early as 1970 I figured they were going to be important. I used these notebooks for lots and lots of stuff. I guess you could call them "general." I always thought of manuscripts as manually created documents that were intended to be printed.
I feel like we often "Romanticize" Ancient People alot and put them on a pedestool of sorts that whenever us Modern People find out that Ancient People did things like this, it often shocks us. After that intial shock that occurs I personally cant help but "feel the oneness of humanity" after using basic things like this that my ancestors have used years earlier despite the more available technology that has advance in my time compared to theirs.
Do you have any video teaching how to use the plyabook, or showing more about it? I saw some photos on the website, but still looks like a more of information and I'd like to understand it better how we can use each page :) thank you!!!
Also as an idea for alternative to “printed.” “Static” or “stationary” or something of the like, as they are unchanging from where and how they existed before you wrote them down and will not change, adapt, or grow within the notebook
Common place book..... ((((fading into the depths of my mind)))😅 i loved the video your note taking is something out of a movie character inventor. Especially down to your books and how they look
a notebook is the best thing for learning languages, no app alone can replace that what you have written down and collected in a notebook.my perspnal opinion aboug language learning and about notebooks
I collect quotations from reading from plays I've seen etc. I even have a quotation misattributed from the television series "Smiley's People" where Smiley recites a line from a poem “Ich möchte schlafen, aber du mußt tanzen.“ which the character attributes to Goethe though it is Theodor Storm so that sends many hares chasing all over the place. I don't have the book so I cannot check if it was an ad-lib or is in the book. My commonplace location is the "Quotes" section of my Tiddlywiki as I retired from teaching before starting this I would have had a classroom ideas category for teaching material but that isn't necessary for me at this moment.
I was thinking I'd start a commonplace book on a subject related to a course I'm teaching. Do you do that? Or how do you gather materials and lectures for your courses?
Yeah I do. I haven't taught a ton of courses, maybe 4 or 5 total but using a commonplace book Is awesome because then I have all of my notes in one spot. I can run through it before class and prime the pump. Often times I won't need to loon back at it during the class once I've ran through it a couple times. Makes you look like a genius lol. But it's cool because then it's a tool for you and not just a class outline document you forget about
@itcanbedonedollars3693 how romantics and victorians organized information: commonplace books, scrapbooks, and albums Book by Jillian M. Hess this one? I should have capitalized it it was a pretty good read although some of the words were sometimes somewhat specific and required preexisting knowledge (although I rarely read books so that might be the problem haha)
@@itcanbedonedollars3693 the section I'm thinking of right now is the section on a "fell book" which I only understood as relating to the mountains because of movie adaptations of lord of the rings and context clues lol but there are many little bits like that which provide a deeper understanding if the reader happens to understand the word most of the complexity is simply at the level of the former and the latter but it should be noted just in case anyone who spends their time on wiki or youtube happens to read a book like that haha
I found your analysis of commonplace very useful as I have started many but they always fall to the wayside. Perhaps because I didn’t plan carefully the scope and purpose of the book. One suggestion, you describe as “Printed” as “reflection, etc, which I initially took to mean where I would record my reflections, etc - but in listening to you describe your examples it became clear that this was not right - it meant to record someone else’s thoughts (i.e quotes) to later read for said purpose. do you ever record your responses with the material you are documenting and referencing or do you transcribe it to a Manuscript for that in all cases?
Hi Parks! I like the difference and genus. However, I find it difficult to bring all my notebooks wherever I am. Is it possible to use one notebook mainly for jotting down observations and any information? Right now, I am reading a book by Mark Manson, I am writing unfamiliar words from the book and writing my insights about a specific page?.
📓 thanks for the video! I am currently reading a lot of Surrealist fiction and I want to start a specific manuscript common place book (to use your terminology) to collect quotes and scenes from Surrealist novels and my own reflections. Do you use common place books for reading fiction? Is this a common practice?
📕 Great video, I really enjoy your content! Some possible alternatives for “printed” CPB could simply be “citation”, “extract”, “snippet”, or “clip” CPB. Maybe you already thought of some of them, but I think they are more intuitive and one can really see what the CPB is going to be about. I personally love “extract” CPB. :) Also, have you considered adding an additional purpose to your classification? A “hybrid” purpose, where you can write down your favourite extracts and (possibly) expand on them with some personal reflections. Do you think it makes sense? I’m really curious to hear back from you! :) Much love and keep up the awesome work!
Thanks so much!! And thanks for the suggested terms. Yeah I'm definitely open to hybrids. This one sounds a bit like a general manuscript but it's more of an optional annotation model. I can dig it
I don't really like digital methods of any notes except annotating philosophy papers. Have you used Supernote? I'm becoming a note taking influencer (lol!), so I feel obligated to check out all methods so I can speak to them with some degree of confidence
A question , as you have explained that there is this notebook where you only keep your quotes , how do you do that like keep that notebook with you pause reading , watching and writing ? Or just note in some rough note book th3n transfer ! ?
📓 As for the “printed” label… I can see how that can be confusing. But the only thing that’s coming to my mind right now is iron gall ink. that is the most permanent ink people used from the 4th to the 20th century. So if somebody wrote some thing down with that ink hundreds of years ago, it could still be read today. May be a play on words with that? Or splay on “scribe”? I don’t know. Yours sounds fine! You have to explain it all anyway, so might as well leave it the way it is. Good work!
Interested in how you would apply a format like this for other topics like mathematics. I recently swapped over to Cornell-style notes for all of my "long-term" maths notes so when I want to reference something I can just look at the summary section on the bottom or find the highlighted equations
I believe the better word to substitute "printed" is "compendium", which already exist and designate the same thing. The word comes from latin and means "that which is weighed together".
Nah compendiums are meant to be comprehensive in scope and systematically presented. I used to call them compendiums, even in the first video on this channel but recently changed it after studying these terms more
📕Do you think keeping a digital commonplace book would be effective for collecting specific printed quotes? As for a general manuscript, I also much prefer the notebook. One more question, what's the difference between a journal and a commonplace book?
Kindles used to collect your highlights in a kind of general printed commonplace book. Idk if they still do or not. But it's the actual act of writing the quote yourself which helps it become apart of you, so if you're doing that digitally that that'll probably work but not that old kindle highlight way. A journal is a collection of your thoughts and ideas. A commonplace book is a collection of someone else's (and sometimes your thoughts on someone else's in the case of a manuscript CPB).
I really want to write a commonplace book, but I don't have the things required. I have a feeling I'm gonna blow the bank on stationery after I get paid. Of course, after I pay my bills. 📓
you could always start with a google doc or binder unless the focus is presentation there isn't much need to have a fancy setup although of course if mentally the only way someone can get in the mood is by using expensive materials then yeah go for that personally the more expensive the materials the harder it is for me to actually start so I waited for years until eventually using a pencil and a partially empty notebook
Gracias por tu canal. Estoy organizando mis cuadernos. Tengo temas específicos, otros más generales y un tercero de citas, aforismos, etc. En casi todos escribo algo de mi propia reflexión. No tengo ningún cuaderno que solo contenga citas. Me interesan esos cuatro tipos de libros comunes. Muy interesante. Espero tus videos con ganas. Un abrazo desde España de Mariano.
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On the subject of language learning, I agree with you that we should all learn a language. I learnt Arabic when I spent three years as a clinical instructor with the Saudi Arabian army. I love being able to converse with someone in their own language... a real sign of respect.
Hey, just wanted to say that through you I finally figured out how journaling works for me! I was always so overwhelmed with people promoting these beautiful and aesthetic and colourful journals but now I got myself a small pocket notebook and I just write in it with black pen whenever I have a thought I'd like to keep :). It's been helping loads with my anxiety and I just want to thank you for that!!
That's the way to do it. A proper journal doesn't have to be clean and good looking. It's something you use on a daily basis, so it's supposed to be simple as it should be normal for it to look used and maybe a bit messy. People showing those very beautiful, colourful journals are too much about perfection from my point of view. However I get the point that maybe it's also a motivation for them to make it look good - for me though it only builds up pressure (in terms of living up to the standard). And tbh. I kinda got to the point where I even like the messy, kinda worn down look. It shows I used it, it lived and it feels good to see that. Sometimes though, when I have really important stuff in there I write it in an extra journal so I can elaborate on things a little further and read it more easily (because I sometimes struggle to read my own handwriting)
Congrats buddy!
i will start doing this!
📓 The fact that history of common placebook is so rich is just mind - boggling. How is it possible that simple notebook has so much philosophy behind it? Just captivating.
🙌 right?! I love it. So glad to share this stuff after I learned of it!
But it is incorrect what he tells in this video. - He make up history, before books where invented!
@@LazyStory Any source?
"I'm creating my own favorite book" @ 10:24 ...that is a fantastic concept, will have to start a Common Place Book! Thanks for the knowledge.
I was hoping someone would like that!
I’ve only watched a few of your videos and I feel like I’ve finally found someone who can accurately articulate the things that constantly float around in my brain. Your explanation of knowledge in this video almost felt like someone was breathing fresh air for me. Thank you for your content, I for one am benefiting a ton from it.
This is awesome! I'm so glad!
¡Gracias!
Wow!! Thank you!!
Respectfully, as a fully Spanish/English bilingual person and a former homeschool educator, keeping a notebook can be an invaluable tool for language learning acquisition. The physical act of writing things down helps to cement concepts in one's mind. Anecdotally, there have been many times when I''ve had total recall of something I'm trying to remember simply because I wrote it down. Regarding language learning, a commonplace book can be home to vocabulary, conjugations, phrases, diction, dialect learning, phonetic learning. Once the basics are covered, one can copy down quoloquial phrases, quotes, phrases, book passages, you name it, and translate them; paying attention to language mechanics. Now, of course, there must be practical listening and verbal experience that must also accompany the learning, maybe not immediately but definitely eventually. Just my dos centavos.
🙌🙌
In German class we used to do an activity where we had a text in German
stuck on the wall behind us and you had to stand up
memorize a chunk then go back to the desk
and write it down without the original.
It was interesting what aspects of grammar / spelling
I and others made
when I copy out quotes even in English - others are in
French, German, Chinese, Greek and Gurmukhi (the language used in the Guru Granth Sahib Ji - the scriptures of the Sikhs)
I do the same process of looking, putting down then writing out and checking
It helps retention and learning for me.
The "genus/species" + Punnet Square demonstration of differentia was SO HELPFUL in understanding what a commonplace book might be for. This makes the idea of starting one MUCH less daunting, because it's easy to say, "this is X type of book, not Y type of book, and that's okay." Thank you for this!
I can't believe I only learned about the concept of "commonplace books" this week, of turning 63 years old. I've actually got one -- never knew it had a name, however. Sadly, it's packed away with a lot of my other stuff, having to relocate quickly after my sister/housemate passed away. So I've started a new, better-organized one. I looked up John Locke, after hearing about him on Jared's channel. Glad I discovered that AND your channel.
Hello! I love your videos so much! The commonplace book that you call "Printed" I call them "Copied Text" or "Transcript Text" 📓
Transcription flows quite well.
I also call them reference / copied text! Makes the most sense to my brain
I wish I saw this before commenting basically the same thing lol
When I heard printed I thought literally printed so idk about you guys but I think any word is better than printed
I've been doing this my whole adult life, and didn't know about Common Place Books at all. It just makes sense to me to aggregate and analyze certain topics all in one place. Plus I love pens and ink, and books. So it just evolved naturally.
I keep notebooks for language learning and i can confirm its obe of the best ways to learn a new language when done correctly.
🙌🙌 this is great to hear! Thanks for sharing this
Great video¡ I have been taking notes on pieces of paper and then notebooks for a long time and realized that it helps me a lot because thats how I work, and I´ve been wanting to do it in a more organized way. This is probably the fifth video I´ve seen in a row about the subject and it was the best (it made me take notes). Thanks
Yes! This is incredible feedback! Thank you, so glad you benefited
📓I am really new to "commonplace" notebooks, and your channel came up for me in the algorithm. I didn't know that king of notebook had a "name". A couple days ago I watched one of your videos where you were talking about having different commonplace books for different topics, and in that video you mentioned your "diary" that must be burned upon your death. That video was so helpful to me, and I finally "got it". I have now started three commonplace books (moleskine 2024 daily) two are pocket size and one is a large size to add my own thoughts. Thank you very much for these explanations. I get it now!! 😄
Let's goo! This is so cool! Thanks for taking a chance on that first video of mine that got you started 🫡
I've never heard of commonplace books but i think the idea of keeping your favorite quotes all in one place is great. I read a lot of different books and I always mark my favorite quotes and passages with post its, so i will definitely start one to collect them. Maybe you could call the 'printed' commonplace book an anthology of sorts?
Thanks for this! I'm still resistant to 'anthology' because I'm trying to get clear on what the term really picks out. Been thinking about it for a while. Still gotta chew on it more. Thank you!
I'm tempted to create a commonplace book for commonplace books :) Thank you, very informative.
Lol I have one...
Hahahaha!!!
Yes, journaling has found some added steam lately. So much anxiety around social media is driving a resurgence of all things analog. I for one am using journaling to center and ground my chaotic mind a bit. I work in a tech role and disconnecting my digital attention for a bit of self-reflection is improving my mood; and sleep of all things.
Really great observation! Glad to hear it's working for you, I've had the same experience 🤝
Yes! I am a tech fan, rapidly moving back to writing on paper and hand made art, drawn, painted and inked. Mark making is a great way to center yourself, whether through words or drawing, abstract or realistic figures.
📓 thank you! I’ve been struggling to find a rhythm between journaling, learning, and capturing thoughts on myself and feelings and your videos have been very helpful to show me different pathways than cramming all these matters in one notebook! I appreciate what you’re doing for us :)
Another brilliant video. I always appreciate the time you spend finding the history on such things to share with us, I always make notes, and it increases my knowledge base as well. It also helps that I am an avid collector of notebooks:D
This is so encouraging!! Thank you for this! So glad to find other noteheads like me out here haha
I always make notes when watching his videos too! I especially love when I can write commonplace notes in my commonplace, feels very satisfying 😂
Thanks, breaking these down into a species is clever and helped me wrap my head around what a common place book could be.
Love this more in depth info about commonplace books.
I have three of them without knowing they were called commonplace. I got a pocket notebook now for quotes too, but to carry it everywhere, and for it to substitute phone use. Love the idea of carrying the commonplace book everywhere.
Congrats for the 100k subs, keep up the good work man, deserved it.
Thank you! I was pretty excited when I watched it turn over 😄
📓I use a "Common Place Book" for each book that I am presently reading (as a fellow philosopher/theologian I usually read more than one book at a time). Each one is a combination of your "printed" and "manuscript" species. I do the same thing if I am researching a specific topic and reading articles and book snippets for the purpose of writing a sermon or article on the specific topic or scripture. I use an 11 ring note book (size A4) with pages that I can rearrange as I begin to formulate a specific topic or response. When I finish the book or topic, the pages get put into a file folder and are filed. But it is great to learn how others arrange their note organizing and thought processes - Thanks.
Transcribed, recorded, or manuscribed commonplace book. Thanks for the great content!
Yes, journaling has found some added steam lately. So much anxiety around social media is driving a resurgence of all things analog. I for one am using journaling to center and ground my chaotic mind a bit. I work in a tech role and disconnecting my digital attention for a bit of self-reflection is improving my mood; and sleep of all things.
Well done, my friend. I think that's a great way to improve the quality of life. Hope you're enjoying the benefits of improved sleep :)
📓 After watching a video you had made regarding a CPB for quotes; I had been in deep thought over what it could be called. Unexpectedly, while watching a Ryan Holiday video on Epictetus, he mentions a book of his called the Enchiridion. That won me over once I delved more into its meaning. Of course you can use whatever you want, but that's what I'm calling mine! Love your videos!
That sounds so epic. Thanks Epictetus lol. I'll look into it more! Thank you!!
Thank you for this video! The explanation of each species was very helpful, and you've motivated me to start a general printed common place book!
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There's a lot of people saying "OK, so a commonplace book is just a notebook."
It's true to an extent.
It's a type of notebook.
You may also have a notebook for specific purposes like writing poetry, doodling or whatever you choose to do when you put pen to paper.
The purpose of a commonplace book tends to be a "thinking" notebook.
You put down any unprocessed thoughts and you process them through the pages.
From there, you can leave the insights in the commonplace book or move them to a place where they are more easily searchable (e.g. a digital medium).
To say "it's just a notebook with a fancy name" is to miss the point.
📔 I found the differences between the two tricky. I think "transcribed" is a good alternative to printed. I have a general manuscripted commonplace book I use, but this is giving me an idea to make a specific one about art techniques. Cheers!
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📓 a specific manuscript commonplace book is probably going to be my first foray into the practice
I hope you get hooked 🤞
📕Great video, and would love to see separate videos detailing each commonplace book subcategory
🫡 thank you!! I'll do it🙌
Great post 📖 commonplace books. It help a lot. I think I understand how to do it now.
It would be great for more expansion on the topic.
So glad you liked it! I'll do more vids on them
Any questions coming up for you as you start to create a commonplace book?
You do a marvelous job - your presentations are clear & are well reasoned. Keep up the good work!
📓 awesome video, you’ve helped me tremendously with figuring out how to keep a journal and what to do with my loads of barely-used notebooks around my room. Thank you again!
Fantastic!! My pleasure, so glad you've benefitted
Favorite Quotes. I've always wanted to start a commonplace book but just didn't know how or what to write in it. A book of my favorite quotes is perfect. Thank you.
I genuinely wish I had discovered this concept at the beginning of my PhD studies. I'm using a grounded theory methodology, and there's a lot of focus on "memoing" where you write about your methodological process, your observations of the data, your theoretical development and then use those in the development of your theory, theoretical framework and resulting manuscript. I always felt a bit weird about memoing, it never really felt natural to me mainly because I couldn't wrap my head around the concept. Treating memoing like a specific manuscript CPB would give a great framework for people who are learning to use grounded theory in research projects. Thanks for the informative video - would definitely love to see a video that goes more in-depth into the specific manuscript CPB.
You've inspired me to resurrect what I now know is my general printed commonplace book. 📓 😊
📓 This is such an awesome breakdown of commonplacing. It seemed like a funny concept to me when I started seeingbit pop up amongs the journal/planner community ❤
Oh I'm so glad! I'd been doing it by myself for like 10 years. Then I discovered lots more people were doing it here on TH-cam but saw people calling it a fad so I wanted to explain CPBs in more detail to give them their due
📓 Another inspiring video thank you. I’ve got notebooks galore and never considered how they could fit into four categories like this.
Thank you! I'm so glad to find other notebook people out here!
Your channel is exploding and I love it!!
Thank you!! I love it too haha
Love this channel. I will start a commonplace pens and commonplace coffee mugs. 😜 thx you😊
Haha awesome!!
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I never maintained an official commonplace book...
but I'm sure motivated to start now! Thank you!
🙌🙌🙌 that's awesome!! So glad to play a role in your journey!
How about "verbatim" commonplace books instead of printed?
Oooo that's pretty good!
I use a zettlekasten through obsidian for manuscripting and keeping quotes attached to their specific subjects and other ideas, but I’ve been keeping a printed general CPB to replace my phone bc of your videos 🌻
📓I really only keep a general printed commonplace book, although I might start a specific one this year. And watching this made me realize that some of my digital databases would be the manuscript type if I kept them in physical form, which I am tempted to do but I couldn't give up the accessibility across devices the way I currently use it.
I move pieces from my analog specifics to digital copies often but writing it first helps me metabolize the info more. Sorry for 'metabolize' haven't found a better word yet
@@ParkerNotes Lol, it makes sense though! That was how I prepared when I was in grad school, I'm just haven't put the same effort into my personal interests!
12:05 ... *Cerebri Studiis* or *Cerebri Studiorum* (Cerebral Pursuits)
"cerebral" typically means that someone is intellectual, thoughtful, and inclined towards using their intellect rather than their emotions.
It suggests that someone is more interested in mental activities and pursuits than physical ones.
Awesome video as always Parker! 📓
Always appreciate you!! 🫡
Thank you , you helped me with my 'deep thoughts' journal as a writer, now I'm going to start a manuscript Common Place 📖 for article ideas on a specific topic.
Yes, ✔️ I'd like more videos on each book.
Much love from Europe 💁🏽
i find your videos very interesting, thank you
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You are the greatest Mr Park! 📓
😁🫡 thank you!!
Just bought two pocket notebooks because of you
😅 hope that's a good thing!
Regarding the terms "printed" and "manuscript," I believe "static" and "dynamic" create the clarity you are searching for.
Bro my brother has bin watching you sense
November thanks 🙏.
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Great video, as always delivering big chunks of wisdom and knowledge in an easy to digest format.
By the way.. Could another word for the "printed" category be "distilled"?
Thank you! I'll chew on that new name!
"And here we see a Commonplace Book in it's natural habitat" ~ Que Jurassic Park music ~ 📓
Hahahah
Possible alternative to "printed" is "collective."
Where I'm at in my (early) common-placing is that I don't differentiate between manuscript and printed, yet. I do differentiate general and specific, though. I figure as I go along I'll get a feel for how I want to handle things and adjust as needed. 📓
Collective is not bad! General and specific is probably the better distinction of the two tbh 🫡
How about Quotidian Commonplace Book. It means either daily or ordinary, which both work, but it’s a pun on “quotations” which is what’s being collected in a “printed”commonplace book.
That is absolutely brilliant Parker. I thoroughly enjoyed that presentation. With my philosophical notes, and because I keep all my books and articles, I record just the reference of where to find a quote, and the topic area where I would use it...
For example using the example you gave about syllogisms and consciousness, I would write the syllogism by Chalmers and then a series of references to support it. Then the syllogism by our mutual friend Keith Frankish and supporting references. Two separate notebooks may be used for two competing arguments.
Thank you again Parker. Best wishes.
that's interesting. A similar concept is present in programming world, but it's called a technical journal. Basically the idea is the same, you write stuff that has to do with your work, ideas, theories, concepts, your deadline estimations etc.
Imagine how much simpler your life would be if you used a Remarkable.
Great video!
I would like to see a TH-cam for each of these types of commonplace books. I don’t have one yet.
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📓I don't know man. I was happy with my "General manuscript CPB" but now you've given me ideas... Might be a time to visit a store and acquire more notebooks 😂
Hahah it's dangerous to watch my stuff!!
📓 Each time I watch one of this awesome videos, it seems my moustache grow a bit 🥸
Haha I hope! I want it to be comically large
Hey man love the videos. The word you're looking for at @9:50 is either Florilegium or Anthology. Both mean the same thing, just depends if you want a latin or greek flair to the name.
I use Florilegium for my pocket Commonplace book and hadn't thought of it for this one, I'm still working through how Infeel about 'anthology' since it has a meaning I don't like in music and literature. I'm leaning towards calling it a 'treasury' but Florilegium could be the one! Thanks for helping me see it in a new light!
park notes on top!
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on an older video I thought to bash you about the handwriting (I kept it inside) ... but after actually having a commonplace book I understand that it is not possible to have good handwriting when you are out and about. :D
Still if you have a desk and are not in a rush, then there's no excuse :D. I recommend the youtube channel CJ's Creative Studio (see his 2 most popular videos about cursive handwriting) Improved my handwriting a lot given that I come from a place where we use the Cyrillic alphabet. We are not thought to write latin letters in cursive.
It's not a huge deal, but it doesn't take that much of an effort to write beautifully either :D
Haha I appreciate this comment so much!! This is the perfect way to bash in love lol. I'm so much more likely to listen if there's some understanding and teasing. I will check this out, I've been meaning to work on it. My mom is an occupational therapist and has been trying to teach me all my life
📓 Great Video. Will probably start using my own quote book as I have loads in multiple places (paper and digital) but making my own book for this is a good idea . Thankyou
Awesome! Yeah it's really nice to have them all together!
Sounds like the spiral-bound flip-over pocket notebooks I used in jr. high and high school to keep track of assignments, sometimes, but more often to keep track of notes and ideas of mine and of others. I used it to try out creative pursuits like creating a simple nonsense comic strip, to learn to work with binary numbers because as early as 1970 I figured they were going to be important. I used these notebooks for lots and lots of stuff.
I guess you could call them "general."
I always thought of manuscripts as manually created documents that were intended to be printed.
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Hey Mr. Park, Would you mind listing the books you showed in the intro? I'd be interested in reading them!
Yes! Please make vids om each of them, subscribing for that! 📚
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I feel like we often "Romanticize" Ancient People alot and put them on a pedestool of sorts that whenever us Modern People find out that Ancient People did things like this, it often shocks us. After that intial shock that occurs I personally cant help but "feel the oneness of humanity" after using basic things like this that my ancestors have used years earlier despite the more available technology that has advance in my time compared to theirs.
Do you have any video teaching how to use the plyabook, or showing more about it? I saw some photos on the website, but still looks like a more of information and I'd like to understand it better how we can use each page :) thank you!!!
Also as an idea for alternative to “printed.” “Static” or “stationary” or something of the like, as they are unchanging from where and how they existed before you wrote them down and will not change, adapt, or grow within the notebook
Common place book..... ((((fading into the depths of my mind)))😅 i loved the video your note taking is something out of a movie character inventor. Especially down to your books and how they look
Haha this is such a great compliment! Thank you!
Thank you : )
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The "Printed Common Place Book" is a bibliography, because presumably you are citing your sources as you write down Quotes from other people.
a notebook is the best thing for learning languages, no app alone can replace that what you have written down and collected in a notebook.my perspnal opinion aboug language learning and about notebooks
I collect quotations
from reading from plays I've seen
etc.
I even have a quotation misattributed from
the television series "Smiley's People"
where Smiley recites a line from a poem
“Ich möchte schlafen, aber du mußt tanzen.“
which the character attributes to Goethe
though it is Theodor Storm
so that sends many hares chasing all over the place.
I don't have the book so I cannot check if it was an ad-lib
or is in the book.
My commonplace location is the "Quotes" section of my Tiddlywiki
as I retired from teaching before starting this
I would have had a classroom ideas category for teaching material
but that isn't necessary for me at this moment.
i love your videos!
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I was thinking I'd start a commonplace book on a subject related to a course I'm teaching. Do you do that? Or how do you gather materials and lectures for your courses?
Yeah I do. I haven't taught a ton of courses, maybe 4 or 5 total but using a commonplace book Is awesome because then I have all of my notes in one spot. I can run through it before class and prime the pump. Often times I won't need to loon back at it during the class once I've ran through it a couple times. Makes you look like a genius lol. But it's cool because then it's a tool for you and not just a class outline document you forget about
@@ParkerNotes Thanks for the feedback! I'm going to start one--for Philosophy of Law, which I'm teaching in the fall.
@@StevenMichels so awesome!
After compiling numerous books, how do you find thoughts or group related thoughts?
I make indexes in the CPBs and the topic specific ones really help with that
What is the title of the Victorian Romantics book featured at the beginning? I love reading anything writing, philosopy from the era.
@itcanbedonedollars3693
how romantics and victorians organized information: commonplace books, scrapbooks, and albums
Book by Jillian M. Hess
this one?
I should have capitalized it
it was a pretty good read although some of the words were sometimes somewhat specific and required preexisting knowledge (although I rarely read books so that might be the problem haha)
@@thepostgradyear Thank you so much *goes sourcing*
@@itcanbedonedollars3693 the section I'm thinking of right now is the section on a "fell book" which I only understood as relating to the mountains because of movie adaptations of lord of the rings and context clues lol
but there are many little bits like that which provide a deeper understanding if the reader happens to understand the word
most of the complexity is simply at the level of the former and the latter but it should be noted just in case anyone who spends their time on wiki or youtube happens to read a book like that haha
💯 interested in videos for the 4 species of commonplace books.
How about discourses? 📓Love the videos!
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I found your analysis of commonplace very useful as I have started many but they always fall to the wayside. Perhaps because I didn’t plan carefully the scope and purpose of the book. One suggestion, you describe as “Printed” as “reflection, etc, which I initially took to mean where I would record my reflections, etc - but in listening to you describe your examples it became clear that this was not right - it meant to record someone else’s thoughts (i.e quotes) to later read for said purpose. do you ever record your responses with the material you are documenting and referencing or do you transcribe it to a Manuscript for that in all cases?
Hi Parks! I like the difference and genus. However, I find it difficult to bring all my notebooks wherever I am. Is it possible to use one notebook mainly for jotting down observations and any information? Right now, I am reading a book by Mark Manson, I am writing unfamiliar words from the book and writing my insights about a specific page?.
I bring a pocket notebook with me everywhere as a catch-all to collect thoughts and then I add them to the other notebooks later
📓 thanks for the video! I am currently reading a lot of Surrealist fiction and I want to start a specific manuscript common place book (to use your terminology) to collect quotes and scenes from Surrealist novels and my own reflections.
Do you use common place books for reading fiction? Is this a common practice?
📕 Great video, I really enjoy your content! Some possible alternatives for “printed” CPB could simply be “citation”, “extract”, “snippet”, or “clip” CPB. Maybe you already thought of some of them, but I think they are more intuitive and one can really see what the CPB is going to be about. I personally love “extract” CPB. :)
Also, have you considered adding an additional purpose to your classification? A “hybrid” purpose, where you can write down your favourite extracts and (possibly) expand on them with some personal reflections. Do you think it makes sense? I’m really curious to hear back from you! :) Much love and keep up the awesome work!
Thanks so much!! And thanks for the suggested terms. Yeah I'm definitely open to hybrids. This one sounds a bit like a general manuscript but it's more of an optional annotation model. I can dig it
What do you think about digital journaling? Like through Supernote?
I don't really like digital methods of any notes except annotating philosophy papers. Have you used Supernote? I'm becoming a note taking influencer (lol!), so I feel obligated to check out all methods so I can speak to them with some degree of confidence
A question , as you have explained that there is this notebook where you only keep your quotes , how do you do that like keep that notebook with you pause reading , watching and writing ? Or just note in some rough note book th3n transfer ! ?
📓 As for the “printed” label… I can see how that can be confusing. But the only thing that’s coming to my mind right now is iron gall ink. that is the most permanent ink people used from the 4th to the 20th century. So if somebody wrote some thing down with that ink hundreds of years ago, it could still be read today. May be a play on words with that? Or splay on “scribe”? I don’t know. Yours sounds fine! You have to explain it all anyway, so might as well leave it the way it is. Good work!
Just randomly came across this video - has anyone told you that you look like Mark Kistler? Imagination station was awesome back in the day
Interested in how you would apply a format like this for other topics like mathematics. I recently swapped over to Cornell-style notes for all of my "long-term" maths notes so when I want to reference something I can just look at the summary section on the bottom or find the highlighted equations
Thanks for sharing this. One question, do you annotate and highlight all the books you're reading?
Mmm yes, but to differing degrees. Fiction gets very few annotations
I believe the better word to substitute "printed" is "compendium", which already exist and designate the same thing. The word comes from latin and means "that which is weighed together".
Nah compendiums are meant to be comprehensive in scope and systematically presented. I used to call them compendiums, even in the first video on this channel but recently changed it after studying these terms more
📕Do you think keeping a digital commonplace book would be effective for collecting specific printed quotes?
As for a general manuscript, I also much prefer the notebook.
One more question, what's the difference between a journal and a commonplace book?
Kindles used to collect your highlights in a kind of general printed commonplace book. Idk if they still do or not. But it's the actual act of writing the quote yourself which helps it become apart of you, so if you're doing that digitally that that'll probably work but not that old kindle highlight way. A journal is a collection of your thoughts and ideas. A commonplace book is a collection of someone else's (and sometimes your thoughts on someone else's in the case of a manuscript CPB).
@@ParkerNotes thanks for the clarification. I'll experiment with this.
hello, im obsessed with pens and stationary supplies, and i would like to see your favorites!
I really want to write a commonplace book, but I don't have the things required. I have a feeling I'm gonna blow the bank on stationery after I get paid. Of course, after I pay my bills. 📓
you could always start with a google doc or binder
unless the focus is presentation there isn't much need to have a fancy setup
although of course if mentally the only way someone can get in the mood is by using expensive materials then yeah go for that
personally the more expensive the materials the harder it is for me to actually start
so I waited for years until eventually using a pencil and a partially empty notebook
@@thepostgradyear nah I love putting pen to paper.
I just don't have a lot of money rn so that's what I meant by “blowing the bank.”
@@thepostgradyear I do have a binder on hand but I would prefer a speckled notebook.
Not being picky that binder is full
@@MrTod1984 yeah I get that :/
best of luck!
Gracias por tu canal.
Estoy organizando mis cuadernos. Tengo temas específicos, otros más generales y un tercero de citas, aforismos, etc. En casi todos escribo algo de mi propia reflexión. No tengo ningún cuaderno que solo contenga citas. Me interesan esos cuatro tipos de libros comunes. Muy interesante. Espero tus videos con ganas. Un abrazo desde España de Mariano.
Thank you!!!