how (& why) to start a commonplace book

ad || You can take my Skillshare Course on commonplacing from Monday the 16th of September -- and the first 500 people to use this link can take the class, and many others, for free: instagram: @_rubygranger tiktok: @rubygranger8 Pumpkin Productivity (my stationery company): 0:00 introduction to commonplacing 1:00 my 8-episode commonplacing class with skillshare (ad) 2:20 what is commonplacing? 4:41 how to set up your commonplace book 5:05 a variation on the Lockean method: how I commonplace 6:31 indexing 7:45 using a commonplace book day-to-day 9:47 three reasons why you should commonplace 13:53 outro Go Further: Read “John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books“ (1685) here - Smyth, Adam. “Commonplace Book Culture: A List of Sixteen Traits“. Women and Writing, c. 1340-c. 1650, 2010, DOI: