Journaling
This is a practicing self-memoir, recorded as an inconsistent logbook. This is my junkyard of will to live. Its ability to contain raw honesty and portray life's imperfections keeps me going. It makes me feel liberated and autonomous over my current meager life. It's a sanctuary for my literary authenticity.
A Website Is A Room
the importance of journal keeping as a powerful tool for creative expression and self-healing, and a way to help solidify thoughts in both one’s personal and literary life.
Phillip Lopate • Writers and Their Notebooks
Commonplace books were a portal through which educated people interacted with the world. They drew on their notebooks in conversation and used them to connect bits of knowledge from different sources and to inspire their own thinking.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
My reason is existential. By writing the things that pop into my head down into my notebook, I teach my brain that those ideas - my ideas - are worthy of being written down at all.
Each note becomes another brick of the house I’m building, a monument to a simple yet elusive truth: that what I notice is worth noticing.
Each note becomes another brick of the house I’m building, a monument to a simple yet elusive truth: that what I notice is worth noticing.
"Why do I keep a notebook at all?"
A real-time capture log implies that your own life is the best source for inspiration; not feeds, articles, or encyclopedias. Having a public log changes how I see the world. Every moment, experience, and conversation is an opportunity.
Akanksha Pandey • march - log - 2025: thoughts on everything I am making sense of
“logging” as separate from journaling: whenever a thought seems noteworthy, jot it down…multiple times a day. The next morning, read the thoughts from previous day, save the ones you like, archive the rest.
But every log of mine is a moment that crossed some threshold of novelty. It’s like I rotate outside of my head to face myself, examining the thought I’m thinking or sight I’m seeing. I am statue man, 5x a day.
Michael Dean • Help, My Head Is Made of Language!
There is a lot of commonality between commonplace books and a Zettelkasten – both are systems of collecting information, both often involve indexing. Modern Zettelkasten builders are often adamant that notes should be transcribed in the user's voice, showing that the information being referenced is now an idea that can be linked to other ideas... See more