Can digital tools be used to create a modern commonplace book?

A commonplace book is what a provident poet cannot subsist without, for this proverbial reason, that “great wits have short memories.” Commonplace Books: Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity. Commonplace books are personal knowledge libraries; notebooks full of collected ideas and ... Feb 24, 2020 ... A journal is private. A blog is public. But with commonplace books, the benefit ... Jul 21, 2023 ... Commonplace books are like pegboard: when you need the hammer, the hammer is there, hanging on its hook. Similarly, when you need to speak ... Jan 23, 2012 ... Commonplace books became widely used in the early modern period, largely because literate people were discombobulated by the flood of information. May 1, 2020 ... Commonplace Books. I came across a fascinating section in Nicholas Carr's The Shallows (What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains) on the subject ... Mar 24, 2022 ... Keeping a commonplace book feels like a kinder way to grow, by wrestling with the articulations of others in the open as I hopefully adjust myself within. It's a kind of journal, but it's explicitly for recording observations from other sources: books, talks, sermons, lectures, etc. May 3, 2021 ... In medieval times, commonplace books had a more flowery name: florilegium. Florilegium is a portmanteau of the Latin words flos (flower) and ... Nov 18, 2024 ... Some of the greatest men and women in history have kept these books. Marcus Aurelius kept one--which more or less became the Meditations.