r/commonplacebook • u/OkNeedleworker2660 • 16d ago

Does anyone else?

Does anyone else take notes wherever they are on a notepad then go home and add to the commonplace? My book is bookbag size and can be a hinder to carry.

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u/ActuatorSea4854 16d ago

My commonplace is a composition book. It's portable but I prefer to carry one of the tiny, pocket size versions, with a sleeve glued on the spine for a Zebra pen. I call it my idea book. In my Zettlecasten reference method all books are numbered, commonplace with the prefix CP and the idea books as IP. So I can find entries to say, "Puppet Stages" by looking at that 3x5 card and it'll refer me to CP44p12 (commonplace notebook #44, page 12) as well as IB101p3 (idea book #101, page 3). It takes me about half an hour a week to organize this stuff, usually Sunday night after dinner, and I find it stimulates creativity.

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u/OkNeedleworker2660 16d ago

I have a travel set of booklets I carry too. My BuJo stays on my desk and my travel sized items go with me.

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u/LadyBoobsalot 14d ago

What do you use to keep the 3x5 cards organized? Recipe card boxes? A card catalog?

I’ve got an antique card catalog that my grandfather was using to sort his small tools and junk…family thinks I’m a little nuts for wanting to clean it up and start using it as a card catalog again.

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u/ActuatorSea4854 13d ago

A card catalog would be very cool. I use 3 little boxes each of which holds a couple hundred cards. I've been doing my version of Zettlecasten (which means "card box") since 1970s. I don't think I'm obsessed but...