why do we write stuff into our notebooks?
Jamming on Joan Didion's essay "On Keeping a Notebook"
why do we write stuff into our notebooks?
I also put checkmarks next to sentences or concepts that pique my interest, but a question hasn’t yet formed. Two checkmarks mean my interest is really piqued, three checkmarks mean my interest is off the charts. A star indicates this is key to the interview even if the question isn’t yet there. Two or three stars mean YES! YES! YES!
ReNoted: Marginalia, or 5 Ways to Write in Your Books
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Writers have kept notebooks since time immemorial. The auctorial equivalent to the artist’s sketchbook is the “commonplace book,” which can contain everything from newspaper clippings to grocery lists to attempts to capture those inspirational bolts out of the blue.
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Cory Doctorow • The Memex Method
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- Pre-modern information environments were locally shared common worlds mediated chiefly by our embodied experience.
- Modernity offered instead a de-situated public sphere built on a shared institutional and expert knowledge mediated by print and mass media.
- What we are now living through is the collapse of the modern arrangement and the emergence of
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
Frida’s sketchbook from around 1922, Museo Frida Kahlo