cultivate your personal taste: digital gardens and commonplace books

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a couple of weeks ago I made a video talking about personal style and personal taste in books (and the role booktok, book tube and bookstagram play in it) and I thought I'd follow up the panic with some thoughts on how to find your personal taste and how to develop personal taste you already have. For me the answer has been commonplace books, countless journals and, more recently, a digital garden.

00:00 - intro: personal taste and how to find it
05:14 - how to use commonplace books
13:16 - what is a digital garden?

article mentioned:

Extraordinary Commonplaces
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2000...

videos mentioned:
Anna Howard video on digital gardens and doomscrolling
   • creating a digital garden to end my doomsc...  
Oddly Specific Crystal video on why you should keep a common place book
   • you should keep a commonplace book (& how)  
Odysseas video on how to set up Obsidian
   • Obsidian: The King of Learning Tools (FULL...  


digital gardens I showed on screen

https://highlights.melanie-richards.com
https://tomcritchlow.com/wiki/

I also recommend this article if you want to know more about how and why other people make digital gardens
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020...





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