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I use it to memorize poems, learn vocabulary, and store other information that doesn’t always need to stay in my brain.
When I’m on the train or waiting, I try to read in my commonplace book instead of looking at my phone.
Feb 7, 2025
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So I always have some way to remember a quote or interesting fact I encounter when I’m out. Also, fun to sit on the train and try to memorize poems and quotes. I’ve banked a few away this way.
Mar 4, 2025
I gave up social media for Lent and got annoyed whenever I had to reactivate the first few weeks because I wanted to copy out a recipe, the name of a painting I forgot, a book a friend had suggested, etc. When I was on the bus a few weeks later, I reread Elisa Gabbert’s essay “Notes on Keeping a Notebook,” which outlines her own experiences with a commonplace book / the utility and beauty of writing down small details. I started using a little goatskin-bound one I bought online a few years ago and haven’t looked back since. I never leave the house without it and spend more time leafing through that than checking for texts when I’m out & about now.
Mar 21, 2024
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I do not have it together enough to do the regimented bullet journal thing nor am I equipped with a workshop of washi tape colors and stationary stickers for those beautiful journals that are more like scrapbooks than notes. What I am capable of is word vomiting directly into a random and unattractive notebook every passing thought, borrowed scrap of inspiration, or theoretical weekly exercise routine I am experimenting with. I think this lowbrow mess is the most rewarding type of journaling beyond doing it for an actual therapeutic purpose. When a bunch of librarians I work with told me this genre of journal has a name and a history going back to the Renaissance I was delighted. My common place books are ugly and valid!!
Apr 1, 2024
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🦇I use the little bat emoji when texting
🦇I put little bats on pies and cakes
🦇I cut them out of paper and hang them
on my windows
🦇even my curtains are bat themed
🦇I highly recommend bat videos on
YouTube
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