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Danii Marin's avatar

Man! I love learning how others use their notebooks! I’m really inspired on how you use yours. I have a chaotic mess of many notebooks for many things. I like having many notebooks, but I’d like to take some tips from your practice to add more order and a sense of “time capsule”.

Thank you for sharing this.

Nathaniel Roy's avatar

I also love seeing how people use notebooks!

Matthew McKee's avatar

“Confused yet?” Nope! I think you just taught me a method to unconfuse my note taking/journaling. Thanks!

Nathaniel Roy's avatar

I'm happy to hear it!

Pip L's avatar

Congratulations re book design milestone. That’s really good to hear😊

Nathaniel Roy's avatar

Thanks, Pip!

Alicia Quan's avatar

Good job to continuing the work and just being you!

Sarah Dixon Young's avatar

A commonplace book is such a treasure. I have never thought about digitizing one. What a great idea! Thanks for sharing.

Nathaniel Roy's avatar

I love the idea of solely a physical one, but I use my notebooks for too many things and use too many throughout the year so that finding anything I wrote down would be a struggle if it didn't exist digitally, too.

Sarah Dixon Young's avatar

So, maybe you have covered this in another post, but do you have a specific app or software to digitize your commonplace?

Nathaniel Roy's avatar

There are probably better ways to do so, but right now I just use a Google Doc. It's organized with headings that go 1) Topic, 2) Author, 3) Quote. If there is a secondary topic that might apply to a quote, underneath I add #topic.

Sarah Dixon Young's avatar

Well, that sounds easy enough. I'm going to give it a try. Thanks.

averagereader's avatar

Thanks for the book recommendations.

Avalune's avatar

Oh man I loved the seafaring chapters! It was definitely a neat read. I thought he was a little harsh about the bullet journal and a few things but it was very interesting.

Nathaniel Roy's avatar

I may have been a little extra tired during the most recent chapter about a seafaring notebook and so that might have colored my take here, haha.

Avalune's avatar

Oh hey if you didn’t like em you didn’t like em and that’s totally ok! I just thought it funny because those were probably my favorite even though I do not sail or get into boats lol