What’s the sticker on the front of your journal!

I adore how most of us here in the comments have had a commonplace book for a long time, only without knowing what it's called. Thought it's just me, turns out it is a commonplace experience🤷

Interesting video! Thank you ❤😊

This is amazing, thank you!

douglas wilson mentioned???!

Definitely trying this but in a travelers notebook instead.

I love your theme 🤩 thank you so much for sharing your knowledge ❤

this has nothing to do with the video, but i love the colour of your nail polish

The glossary to keep track of topics/sources!! YESSS, THANK YOU!! I have a system for my Notes app and Pinterest and have multiple notebooks for different subjects but have been wanting to start a commonplace book for a while but feared if I needed something specific I'd never find anything, it was for (hopeful) retention and presence only, which isn't bad at all but I knew I'd like to read my own mixed topic/miscellaneous textbook for fun or for reference sometime! An index is ittt (:

Fantastic video. I’m going to install most or all of your recommendations. Thanks!

Helpful video indeed, thanks! It seems that if I need to link to an external source, it needs to be a public URL. Can I link to a file which is not shared publicly? Also, what's the theme that you're using?

You are the absolute best. Thank you!

i would quote every single ts song

Wow, been doing this informally for years, about a year ago started a newer version where i add the date of my entry as well as a decorative box at the front of the entry specifying what it's about, ie exercise, food, insight, etc. Like how books have the big decorative letter at the beginning of the first paragraph in the new chapter. I forget what it's called. Glad this popped up in my feed, very cool! 🤗

So I’m very new to Obsidian. And I have no coding knowledge at all. I am a musician and would love to know how to implement the chord sheet plug in. I found the plugin…downloaded it and enabled it. But I cannot figure out how to actually use it. Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

I have a Word document where I copy and paste quotes and info from all around the net. I guess that's my commonplace book!

Very nice handwriting.

I write the same as you with my fingers the same weird! And i am a lefty too!! I write with a card under my hand so i don't smear as much, but i don't use fountainpens.

Love this color scheme, thanks for the pastebin!

It's heartening to me to see that you have crossings out in your book, and that your lines in the index are wavy. I watch so many videos about journalling where people have beautiful handwriting and can draw artistic borders and illustrations, etc. My handwriting has always been messy and I can't draw to save my life, so I worry about spoiling a beautiful notebook. Maybe it doesn't matter so much if it's just for me.

Thankyou for sharing dear

It’s a sweet idea, but here’s the problem. First, I incorporate these things in my journal entries. But secondly, and most importantly, young people do not know how to read cursive so I use a computer for my journal and all my writing. I also think faster than I can write so typing is better for me and my handwriting isn’t great especially if my hand gets tired and I still have a lot to write. Anyway, my main point is to say a book like this is kind of cool to make and keep and pass on to Family, but they won’t be able to read it and I dare say it will cost a lot of money to have someone translated it into typed work at some point.

I keep a Google doc of iconic (usually unhinged) quotes from my coworkers (we work desk jobs) and we recently read through it CRACKING UPP. It’s become a relic since so many of our inside jokes were formed in these sentences.

I love this. I’ve thought about doing it for years but never have been very good at consistency. I just moved to a new state and I’m planning on getting my library card soon. I think maybe I’ll restart a commonplace notebook for the books I borrow. As for retiring your journals you can write on the spines with a white gel pen the months or years it was active. I do this for my Bibles and I really love seeing them on the shelf. Anyway thanks for sharing and I’m happy to have come across your channel.

Oh so I can get everything that is in ma brain onto obsidian Good as I know the whole history of the world And Japan,Germany and China in very great detail More than natives (am german) It's kinda alot of info Now I just need figure out how I want to start with obsidian 😂

a commonplace book doesnt have to be tidy, messy or look good it can look however it is comfortable for you and if you are storing things in there (info you might need) putting a symbol paper or something in there will help definitely

Marcus Aurelius was always a favourite when I was at school - his quotations are (not unnaturally), legend; unsurprising then, that he should be one of the first protagonists for the Commonplace journal.....keep on keeping on - I've been creating these books for decades, tho' with a fountain pen; in the early days, employed a pencil - I could never get used to ballpoint or rollerball writing instruments - perhaps due to the fact of being left handed....wonderful presentation !

omg how come i never heard of the chord sheets plug-in before 😭 thank you so much great video and lovely theme

I didn't know commonplacing was a thing until very recently, but as long as I can remember I've kept an "everything notebook," where I do everything from journaling and planning to writing down quotes, lyrics, or funny text posts. I have an impressive but ever-changing page flag system. I don't think I could separate out a proper commonplace from the book I also journal in, but it's nice to know I'm not the only one who likes to record others' words and thoughts too!

Your theme customization is beautiful! Thanks a lot for sharing it with us :D

Do you turn on / activate core plug in "Unique Note Creator"? You're using zettelcasten right?

Plz say, what's theme u use?

I still use an analog commonplace book and just digitize it to my note taking app once I’m done. OCR is so good now your handwritten notes show up in search.

What I do is I have a commonplace notebook, and then I transfer things to Obsidian when I get home.

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Mocht je willen schrijven en willen linken, zou je ook GoodNotes op de iPad gebruiken met een pencil :)

Wat zonde van je Hobonichi Cousin, zeg! Gelukkig was er niemand gewond. En handig dat je er foto's van hebt. Hoop dat de Weeks gaat werken!

I really like this idea. I didn't know it had a name but I was kind of doing it without realizing it just in multiple books. It makes sense to keep in one book though. Thanks!

liked this format and this is the first i viewed your video. thanks for suggesting these plugins.

This is exactly why I also stopped bullet journaling. I loved bullet journaling but when my planning needs changed, I really needed more structure. I went to the Hobonichi Cousin too but that was back in 2021 when they had the old Tomoe River Paper and I really didn't like that paper with the pens I use so I started planner hopping like crazy. Eventually I saw someone testing out the new Tomoe River S Paper that they use in the Hobonichis now and I saw it was much better for my kind of pens and so I got a 2024 Cousin and loved it. However, I found, in my planner hopping, that I really didn't need the space of a Month+Week+Day in A5 size so I switched to the April Start Weeks (since the Weeks Jan Start did not have the new paper) and I have been loving the portability and always having my planner with me and using the weeks. I do prefer the white paper of the Cousin but the Weeks is still a great planner. I use the memo accessory notebooks for my daily logging and I keep the planner pages for plans, projects, and to-dos

4:30 for the record, its pronounced too-tan-car-moon :D

I have a little notebook like this where I place all my film and Art related notes/quotes. I never knew that this kind of notebook had a name. Very fun

Which theme is that in your Obisdian?

I had an English teacher call them ones “quintessence”

This is too common for me lol 😆

Loved the video! I wish I could like it twice 😊

Obsidian hypeeeeee dude the only way it could be more perfect is if I could embed videos

I use something similar in an app, but I follow the PARA method which is more project oriented. Same idea.

Hell, I been doing this since elementary school. I've still got old notebooks full of quotes and phrases, particularly good words and their definitions, thoughts, ideas, and philosophies I found interesting, notes about different religions, recipes, instructions, and drawings/diagrams of things I saw and wanted to remember how they work.

I loved your video. I love using Obsidian, I can't live without it. And I really loved your setup.