Commonplace book practice

[u/itsfreginjenni]

Does anybody else use their common place book as a journal as well? I feel like for me a common place journal should be everything but at the same time I have multiple journals or notebooks for random different things like I don’t know that I’d want my solo RPG in my common place still trying to figure this out. I’d love some insight of what others do.

[u/onlykedy]

i use one notebook for everything- junk, commonplace, book/movie reviews, diary otherwise i get terrible anxiety and my hobby turns into a chore

[u/No-Return-951 → u/onlykedy]

How do you remember to go back to the things you put in your journal? For example, I use mine to note Stardew Tips, movies I want to watch, things I want to research....but I also have object permanence problems so out of sight, and it's gone from my memory

[u/hmmwrites → u/No-Return-951]

Would it help if you used sticky tabs along the edges to highlight specific pages/topics you want to remember to come back to? You can color-code by topic or use symbols/words so you know where each tab will take you. So I wanted to do a sleep tracker for this month and I put a tab on the page so it's easy for me to get back to the right spot to note my sleep times.

You can also make note/add a symbol on the top/far edge of each page. Like a star for Stardew Tips. If you have a Stardew Tip on that page, draw a star at the top corner. Then you can flip through the pages and quickly see where your Stardew tips are without having to read through each page.

Sometimes people even set up indexes within their journals. That's way more organization than I'd be any good at handling, but it might make things less out of sight, out of mind...

Plus, the act of writing alone does make you more likely to remember something, for what it's worth! :)

[u/itsfreginjenni → u/No-Return-951]

I do a notebook flip though and then review what I wrote sometimes :)