ReNoted: Marginalia, or 5 Ways to Write in Your Books

For centuries, artists and intellectuals from Leonardo da Vinci to Virginia Woolf, from John Locke to Octavia Butler, have recorded the ideas they found most interesting in a book they carried around with them, known as a “commonplace book.”II

my twenty-year-old self, especially as my copies of the books were filled with that self’s weirdly emphatic juvenile marginalia.