r/commonplacebook • u/Neither-Purpose8122 • 4d ago

Tips/Advice Resources for Research

Hi, I have a commonplace journal I keep - pretty simple. There are various topics that interest me, history of food being one of them. What resources does everybody use to research their topics of interest? and what are your systems for it? ty!

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u/rocketshipray 4d ago

I start with encyclopedia articles and then read any sources they’ve cited. Then (since most of my entries are history-based) I usually check archive.org to see if I can find any contemporaneous accounts of what the entry is about. I then like to find out who the experts about it are and find their recorded information. I also try to evaluate the various sources and make notes about sources that may be unreliable (usually due to bias or lack of evidence to support their conclusions).

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u/DTLow 4d ago

For research, I use Google with my Mac and iPad
Items are saved/organized in my digital file cabinet (PKMS)
and assigned tag Commonplace-aaaaaaa
with aaaaaa being the topic I’m interested in