January 17, 2024: this is very, very interesting. While reading the very pedantic Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of An Iconic Book, Emma Smith, c. 2016, I came across a whole section on "commonplace" books.
I first came across that word and the concept of "commonplace" writing when reading Virginia Woolf many decades ago.
Commonplace writing is somewhat different than a journal or a diary, though in many cases, certainly my case, a physical journal or diary might include both personal notes and writing down / collecting information about specific topics that interest the writer.
Because Emma Smith digressed into the concept of commonplace writing and devoted several pages to it, I thought it best to have a page devoted to commonplace writing.
January 17, 2024: first post.
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Commonplace Books and Journals
Notebooks, but not commonplace books.
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