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Commonplace Books: A Universal Note-Taking Method That Unites Humanity Across Time and Space

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Commonplace Books: A Universal Note-Taking Method That Unites Humanity Across Time and Space

From Ancient Greece to China to Harvard, Commonplace Books Endure

Tiago Forte
May 3, 2020
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Commonplace Books: A Universal Note-Taking Method That Unites Humanity Across Time and Space

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Hi, Dan here. I’m thrilled to have Tiago Forte joining the bundle this week with one of his Praxis Members-Only articles. Here, Tiago writes about one of the most interesting systems I’ve come across for recording and preserving knowledge: the commonplace book. It’s a kind of journal, but it’s explicitly for recording observations from other sources: bo…

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