So, about commonplace books. Commonplace books became widely used in the early modern period, largely because literate people were discombobulated by the flood of information that the printing press ...

Today everyone uses computers and cellphones to catalog thoughts and ideas but in the 19th-century, writers chose to take up the commonplace-book tradition by categorizing quotations and information ...

Jonathan Swift, who would in later life suffer from dementia, was keen on the importance of keeping a “commonplace book” in which a person might record insights, overheard bits, observations, excerpts ...

For the last 30 years or so, I've kept a kind of "Commonplace Book"** - a collection of writings, anything from a sentence or two to a couple of paragraphs, that I had come across and found ...

I am too cool for Tumblr. Even so, it’s hard to resist the impulse to collect all the awesome stuff I come across in my Internet perambulations. Herein lies the dilemma: If I’m too cool for Tumblr, ...

Income, status, meaning – for most people they're merged. You need status for income and you try to gain both through work that means something to you. Aging often affords more time for meaning ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The albums were passed down through the Throop family to Mrs. Olive Cole Smith, the granddaughter of Deborah Goldsmith Throop and George Addison ...