“If you keep hundreds of ideas at your fingertips that you’ve collected over decades… you get an unbelievable amount of inspiration from just randomly looking at 25 of those ideas every now and again and thinking to yourself, is there a way they work together in a new and interesting way?”

- Adam Alter

https://news.uchicago.edu/feeling-stuck-heres-how-achieve-breakthrough-adam-alter

One for the commonplace book, kiddos.

#wisdom #commonplacebook https://social.seattle.wa.us/@mako/114313794566257914

Realised that I much prefer #Logseq for my fleeting notes, i.e. my #CommonPlaceBook. I tried using #Obsidian for a while, but I much prefer the Logseq bullet point way of doing things.

I'm not giving up on Obsidian, far from it. It'll be for my permanent notes and where I do much of my #writing.

If this means I'll have two files, of exactly the same notes (but in different formats), so be it.

Added a bunch more things to my commonplace book. Mostly Japanese terms: https://duncanmckean.com/tag/japan/

#TIL 今天又学到一招怎么给纸质笔记本加标签，号称 Japanese notebook hack，非常简单，只需在笔记本里定一页做为标签的索引页，以后记笔记时按照标签在索引的行数给笔记页边缘对应的位置染上颜色，本子合上后可以看见各种标签（“类别”）怎么自然生长。我要马上用到我的 BuJo 里去，这个妙招还可以帮我提炼常用的大类而不是给每条信息瞎加一堆标签。

[image via HighFive Blog]

In the gym I've been watching videos on common place books. It tickles an itch I get this time of year for notebooks and writing and organization. Also a little nostalgia for Lemon Snicket.

It also has me considering using paper for immediate thoughts or collecting and Obsidian for a long term collection and second draft type space. I haven't tried merging paper and tech beyond calendars but I think this could work well for all my writing itches.

I got a cool sticker by Sue Coccia for my commonplace book. I even like how it looks with the strap closed.
#raccoons #CommonPlaceBook #notebooks #stickers

Does anyone around these parts keep a Commonplace Book? I've actually just learned that it's a [revived?] modern practice and got hooked in by YouTubers...which is pretty common for me tbh.
#writing #journaling #CommonplaceBook

In today's #Blaugust2024 post, I talk about how I keep a #CommonplaceBook both digitally and by hand.

#Blog #Journal

https://aywren.com/2024/08/09/keeping-a-commonplace-book-online-and-offline

“Gaze not into the abyss, lest you become recognized as an abyss domain expert, and they expect you keep gazing into the damn thing.”

—Nick Mathewson

https://twitter.com/nickm_tor/status/860234274842324993

#CommonplaceBook notes, including the internet grey goo and whether things are permanent online, and the wide-ranging great work of Ross Anderson

https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2024/04/notes-grey-goo-permanence-or-otherwise.html

@LinuxAndYarn @SmudgeTheInsultCat

FWIW, this is the use case and value of #PKM and a motivation to build a #SecondBrain or #commonplacebook in the style of #zettelkasten.

A dog, like fiction
asks permission
and waits patiently.
He walks around my feet,
wagging his tail,
but I'll walk him when
I'm ready
(thank you very much).
A dog eats what I give him,
laps at my leftovers,
and then looks up at me
with round eyes
when I ignore him at bedtime.
He doesn't mind
being locked
away into a small cage.

Andrea Witzke [Leavey] Slot

In Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review: “A dog, like fiction” No. 19, Fall/Winter 2002
#CommonPlaceBook
#writing
#poetry
#fiction

"When I became aware [in college] of my 'wrong' experience, I chose fantasy. Convinced that I had no real experience of life, since my own obviously wasn't part of Great Literature, I decided consciously that I'd write things nobody knew about, dammit. So I wrote realism disguised as fantasy, that is, science fiction." p. 127
Joanna Russ
How to Suppress women's Writing

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/21/600902444/how-to-suppress-womens-writing-three-decades-old-and-still-sadly-relevant

#metaphors
#ScienceFiction
#Feminist
#Fantasy
#quotes
#writing
#JoannaRuss
#CommonPlaceBook

"We live in a world both found and made, and the place where the finding ends and the making begins is sometimes difficult to discern."

Daniel Rigney

The Metaphorical Society: An Introduction to Social Theory

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2354441

#metaphors
#Sociolinguistics
#theory
#BlackMastodon
#quotes
#writing
#CommonPlaceBook

‘Perhaps the best one-liner in a student paper this semester, "The analysis is severely limited by my lack of understanding of what I am doing." #humility’

—@shaferpr (Paul Shafer), May 7, 2021 (https://twitter.com/shaferpr/status/1390774322239705091)

(Indirectly via Mary Anne)

Today is the day I realized I had a #commonplacebook, I just wasn’t using it right.

Does anyone on the #fediverse keep a Commonplace Book?

If so, any tips you can offer for someone just starting out?

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#commonplacebook #writing

My mom has a strong daily habit of recording in her daily #journal / #scrapbook / #commonplacebook . My sister sent her a bunch of stuff for her recent birthday, and this is mom’s entry — shipping labels (redacted here by me), parts of packaging labels, a tracing of the scissors, etc. And, of course, the date and her verses for the day. And she still has such beautiful handwriting!