You NEED a Commonplace Book 📕The Past, Present and Future of Commonplacing

Why should I keep a commonplace book? Let's explore why keeping a commonplace book was important in the past and why it will be important in the future!

⏱️ Time Stamps ⏱️
0:00: Intro
1:25: Act 1 - What is a commonplace book? A Brief History of Commonplacing
4:36: Act 2 - Why do People Commonplace today?
13:16: Act 3 - Commonplacing as a Reaction to Societal Woes
20:08: Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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📝 References 📝
Beinecke Flickr Laboratory. (n.d.). Commonplace book [Photograph]. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Havens, E. (n.d.). Commonplace Books: A History of Manuscripts and Printed Books from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century.
Harvard School of Public Health. (2025). As health data disappear from government websites, experts push back. https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/as-heal...
Howell, M. (2025, February 4). CDC webpages go dark as Trump targets public health information. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...
Isaac, M. (2025, January 12). Meta backs away from fact checking in the U.S. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/12/nx-s1-...
Maddox, K. (2022, March 22). Commonplace Books Are Like a Diary Without the Risk of Annoying Yourself. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/ma...
Princeton University Library. (2016, August 3). Commonplace Books and Uncommon Readers. https://blogs.princeton.edu/manuscrip...
Rhiannon, M. (2024, March 26). On Commonplacing. https://www.megan-rhiannon.com/gloomy...
Thompson, S. (2023, February 8). Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chatbots. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/te...
Turner, J. (2025, February 2). Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/up...
Williams, P. (2025, May 20). Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1m to Trump fund. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8j...

📸 Images From 📸
Ciarpaglini’s Commonplace Book image taken from https://blogs.princeton.edu/manuscrip...
The Met Open Access Public-Domain Artworks - https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-m...
Victorian Scrapbook image taken from https://journalofantiques.com/wp-cont...

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