What is a Commonplace Book? (Philosopher Explains)
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Commonplace books are back! This is an ancient method of collecting and storing information that goes all the way back to Aristotle. Today, commonplace books are enjoying a massive resurgence, thanks in large part to TH-cam! In this video I cover a bit of the history and then classify the four species of commonplace books.
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0:00 - Intro
0:38 - History of Commonplace Books
2:46 - What are Commonplace Books Good For?
3:42 - Why I love Lingoda
5:19 - Classifying Commonplace Books
7:36 - General Manuscript Commonplace Book
8:17 - Specific Manuscript Commonplace Book
8:58 - General Printed Commonplace Book
10:30 - Specific Printed Commonplace Book
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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.
🙌 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’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!
"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!
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!
📓 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 :)
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
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
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 😄
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.
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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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!
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 🫡
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 💁🏽
You've inspired me to resurrect what I now know is my general printed commonplace book. 📓 😊
Awesome video as always Parker! 📓
Always appreciate you!! 🫡
📓 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
📓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.
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.
i find your videos very interesting, thank you
🫡 thank you!
📕Great video, and would love to see separate videos detailing each commonplace book subcategory
🫡 thank you!! I'll do it🙌
Love this channel. I will start a commonplace pens and commonplace coffee mugs. 😜 thx you😊
Haha awesome!!
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!
I'm tempted to create a commonplace book for commonplace books :) Thank you, very informative.
Lol I have one...
Hahahaha!!!
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.
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 🌻
You are the greatest Mr Park! 📓
😁🫡 thank you!!
📓 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!
📓 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
📓 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!!
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.
Your channel is exploding and I love it!!
Thank you!! I love it too haha
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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!
📓 a specific manuscript commonplace book is probably going to be my first foray into the practice
I hope you get hooked 🤞
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.
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?
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.
Thank you : )
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I write transcripts from Korean dramas out in Google docs as a way of reinforcing what I've learned and gathering new vocabulary. Not exactly a commonplace book, but it can help with recall.
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Wow!! Thank you!!
i love your videos!
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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.
Yes! Please make vids om each of them, subscribing for that! 📚
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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!
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
💯 interested in videos for the 4 species of commonplace books.
Hi Parker, love your content! I recently asked a question during a class about how I write. Someone mentioned it sounds like a “learning journal.” I largely reflect on things I learn or write through issues based on bits of knowledge I come across, both of which turn into pages worth. It sounds like it’s more of a general manuscript but do you have any further readings on this type of journaling?
📓I so love your channel
📓 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!
park notes on top!
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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!
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.
How about discourses? 📓Love the videos!
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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!!!
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
Just bought two pocket notebooks because of you
😅 hope that's a good thing!
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
📓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!
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 🫡
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.
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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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Those books about common place books. Do you have amazon links for them? As well as Aristotles topica
Imagine how much simpler your life would be if you used a Remarkable.
Great video!
I actually learned something from watching a TH-cam Video, thanks boss!
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Interested in seeing a general manuscript for reading/processing ideas from books, etc. It’s never made sense to have a different journal for each book I’m reading, but not sure how to track multiple books/ideas in one journal (e.g. 2 pages on one book, 1 page on another, more pages on the first book, etc.). Would you just index each entry?
📓 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
📓 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?
📓📚📙 I've only ever used General Common Place Books, both printed and manuscript, but I'm starting specific ones for fitness knowledge
I just started one for fitness and dietetics 🙌
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
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
📕 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 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!!
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!
📓I think my commonplace books are a combination of manuscripts and compendiums. I have found there is little thought into which book I grab when I want to write down a quote or write something out for my Substack. It’s generally whichever is closest to me
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?
📓So far, I only have one commonplace book, and it is would fall into your general printed category. It covers everything, but doesn't contain my own thoughts. Maybe eventually I'll expand into some other categories and offer more of my commentaries, but not yet.
📕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.
Why do you opt for analog methods of storing information as opposed to digital e.g notion, etc?
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
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
📓 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!
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
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!
📓I use a general commonplace book, sometimes printed and sometimes manuscript, but I always choose too much to quote, which makes consistency hard. Maybe I should try more specific commonplace books, or to select less quotes. 😅
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!!!
How about "verbatim" commonplace books instead of printed?
Oooo that's pretty good!
"And here we see a Commonplace Book in it's natural habitat" ~ Que Jurassic Park music ~ 📓
Hahahah
I'm curious: why would one need a General Printed CPB when one is also maintaining Specific Printed CPBs on various topics? Without the element of response/analysis of the manuscript variety, it seems doing either one or the other would be more efficient and useful than keeping one of each, with my instinct guiding me to prefer more specific printed CPBs. Would be curious to see a video about the differences in your uses for those two types. Also, instead of printed, perhaps "reference" is the right word? Meaning, you write out quotes solely for the purpose of reference, not for writing/responding/analyzing. Also, perhaps "collectio/collection" would be another word that could work there?
So I only have so many specific CPBs. If I read a fantastic quote that doesn't quite fit in one of my specific ones, I have a general printed that I can throw it in. I'll do more explaining on this in a fiture video, thanks for this question, so good!
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.
did you practice your handwriting, or did it just come naturally to you? my handwriting looks very rough and not pretty
I practice. Mine is still very poor. But if I'm careful it can be okay
Can someone please tell me what that 'know-how' knowledge is called? Where can I find more information about the types of knowledge in general? Thanks
Some call it knowledge by acquaintance but I think that's a broader term that includes know-how and know-who knowledge
Thank you so much @@ParkerNotes
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
What pen do you use?
I really like these: amzn.to/48o9VGI
You got a favorite?
Would you say your pocket notebooks are the miniature versions of your larger commonplace books? The philosophy and methods are the same?
No, my pocket notebooks are journals/catch-alls, except for my contemplatio which is something like a cross between a commonplace book and a compendium. Unless you're seeing something I missed.
Oh I do have a pocket proverbs commonplace book too lol
@@ParkerNotes haha. I’ve watched that video and your pocket book video and it seems like they fall into the Printer category. So that’s why I asked.
I’m using travelers notebooks for both. I like the idea of having all my notebooks with me even though they are smaller.
@@bmluker1 haha sorry I thought you were talking about my catch-alls. I forget my pocket proverbs cpb is a pocket notebook sometimes 😅
Wow! Very insightful. Just when I thought this would go over my head…I found myself hanging on til the end. 👏🏼 Thank you for keeping ‘thinking’ alive for your generation in this age of digital overload and shallow interest. 📓 I’d have to say, since I’m very new to this concept, I lean General Printed in my style. I’ve ALWAYS commonplaced but it’s always been on random pieces of paper, envelopes, napkins etc so I’m happy I’m not the only one whose mind works this way-now I can gather it all into one 📓 How ‘bout in place of ‘printed’, the purpose is a COLLECTION. A General Collection and a Specific Collection. 🤷🏻♀️
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Thank God for today's Aristotelians.
Aw, I'd deleted my previous comment about your interests being nice, but that's only because I thought it was silly, as I do think that still.
The more abstract a subject is, the less people care about it and it's getting worse, which is funny in a time where philosophical presupositions are being spilled left and right.
How about 1. General and specific. 2. Annotated and non annotated.