Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By J.D. Biersdorfer, c.2021 The New York Times Co. Creating a commonplace book is somewhat like marking your favorite lines in a novel with the Amazon Kindle ...

Centuries ago, long before highlighters, sticky notes, and productivity apps, people faced one significant problem: how to hold onto important ideas. Their solution? Commonplace books. In the late ...

Today everyone uses computers and cellphones to catalog thoughts and ideas but in the 19th-century, writers chose to take up the commonplace-book tradition by categorizing quotations and information ...

For the last 30 years or so, I've kept a kind of "Commonplace Book"** - a collection of writings, anything from a sentence or two to a couple of paragraphs, that I had come across and found ...

As a Nora Ephron “stan” of a certain age, it’s impossible for me to hear the word “independent bookstore” and not think of ’90s-era Meg Ryan, holding a box of twinkle lights, giving one last wistful ...

Income, status, meaning – for most people they're merged. You need status for income and you try to gain both through work that means something to you. Aging often affords more time for meaning ...

If you have a crisp, new notebook you’re dying to write in, but aren’t sure where to start, why not grab a pen and start filling it with random thoughts and ideas? A journal that’s packed with ...

If you want to start journaling, a commonplace book is a low-stakes entrypoint. Studies have shown that journaling can boost your mental health and help you process difficult emotions-even if you ...

Income, status, meaning – for most people they're merged. You need status for income and you try to gain both through work that means something to you. Aging often affords more time for meaning ...