Hmmm.... Problem with getting more serious about #BulletJournaling again and starting to keep a #CommonplaceBook: I'm going through a lot more notebook pages.

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

I've just discovered the research notebook app/digital commonplace book Orson, which looks very interesting.

What particularly caught my attention is how its structure maps precisely onto the pattern @gordon has identified as "capture, organise, synthesise"

Orson has cards to capture information, contexts (e.g. maps, timelines, etc) to organise, and pages to write narratives, embedding cards or contexts as necessary.

#Orson #Notebook #CommonplaceBook #ToolsForThought #DigitalHumanities

https://orsn.io/guide/

Is common sense commonplace?

#commonsense #commonplacebook

A description of the #month of #April in #earlymodern England.
From Fantasticks, Nicholas Breton, 1626.

Read by Peter Kenny

Image from the #Trevelyon #Miscellany (Folger MS V.b.232), c1608

#17thCentury
#laboursofthemonths
#seventeenthcentury
#commonplacebook
#commonplacebooks
#nicholasbreton
#history
#socialhistory
#morrisdance
#morrisdancers
#historical
#seasonal
#seasonalcustoms
#plumblossom
#porpoise
#nightingale
#pastoral
#bees
#lambs
#signsofspring
#histodons
#histodon
@histodon
@earlymodern
@histodons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBWPcooYTZM&ab_channel=Passamezzo

How do you end your prayers?

http://randal.us/good-prayer-ending/

#prayer #CommonplaceBook

While browsing the federated timeline, I came across mention of #Obsidian and have decided to give it a try.

I gave up on OneNote some years back, switching to text documents and handful of tracking spreadsheets sorted into various directories along with handwritten #notebooks for different subjects and a #CommonPlacebook.

I'm always experimenting to find a balance between the handwritten, where I feel the most engaged, and the electronic, with its access to search and sorting features and its speed.

I'm enjoying starting to build out links in Obsidian and use tags, though I suspect my folder/subfolder structure will take a bit of experimentation: my approach to categorization isn't exactly Aristotelian.

A description of the month of #March in #earlymodern Britain.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.
Image from the Trevelyon Miscellany (Folger MS V.b.232), c1608

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zUXIkbYJyg&ab_channel=Passamezzo

@earlymodern @histodon @histodons #histodon #histodons #socialhistory #TrevelyonMiscellany #commonplacebook #history #17thCentury #17thcenturyhistory #SeventeenthCentury #LaboursoftheMonths #NicholasBreton

On the difficulty of finishing a notebook and where a commonplace book may help #CommonplaceBook https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2023/02/finishing-this-notebook

@simon this strikes me as a digital #commonplacebook

Loved this poem even before I knew it referred to a de Chirico painting. It's just so funny, among other things.

Wendy Cope, "The Uncertainty of the Poet"

https://shandean.blogspot.com/2019/04/wendy-cope-uncertainty-of-poet.html
#poetry #poem #CommonplaceBook

Hypothetically, if one were to harbor ambitions of becoming a prolific writer of absurdisms, short stories, screenplays, poems, travelogues, and maybe novels, someday, what are the best #commonplacebook tools to support such an endeavor and what's the best self-hosting storage solutions?

#selfhost #content #writingcommunity #writinglife #journalism #pamphleteering

This poem hooks me with its opening:

"This happens in Schubert
And elsewhere,

Iowa, for example."

I mean, how can you not love that!

Robert Rehder, "Archipelago"
https://shandean.blogspot.com/2019/04/robert-rehder-archipelago.html
#poem #poetry #CommonplaceBook

The #CommonplaceBook of #RobertBurns returns to Scotland

https://www.scotsman.com/news/national/robert-burns-treasure-trove-hidden-away-for-more-than-100-years-comes-home-to-scotland-3984869

Such a well-known poem . . . but I always find it moving. It is, after all, "About suffering" and "its human position."

W.H. Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts"
https://shandean.blogspot.com/2019/04/w-h-auden-musee-des-beaux-arts.html
#poetry #poem #CommonplaceBook

Can't quite articulate why this poem grabbed me ... though I often find Stallings's poems do that.

"The glass does not break because it is glass . . . "

A. E. Stallings, "Fragment"
https://shandean.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-e-stallings-fragment.html
#poem #poetry #CommonplaceBook

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! ✍️

I've always liked the way this poem takes a phrase literally and works it --- leads to humor, and then something more thoughtful.

William Greenway, "How the Dead Bury the Dead"
https://shandean.blogspot.com/2019/04/william-greenway-how-dead-bury-dead.html
#poem #poetry #CommonplaceBook

Liking today's offering from Poetry Daily: "The Fall of Varia" by D. Nurkse. Such a great opening line:
"The tanks from the Past rolled in this morning."

https://poems.com/poem/fall-of-varia/
#poetry #poem #CommonplaceBook

Nice to be reminded that beginnings don't always look or feel promising, via Albert Schweitzer.

https://shandean.blogspot.com/2019/04/beginnings.html
#quotation #quote #CommonplaceBook