{"id":1,"date":"2021-01-03T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/full.co.uk\/?p=1"},"modified":"2021-02-22T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:37:00","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/full.co.uk\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"The commonplace book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your commonplace book is just a notebook where you collect quotes from things you’re reading, observations, passing thoughts – in short, anything that catches your attention that you want to remember.<\/p>\n

You can use it for one specific purpose, if you are focused on one project, or you can make it a mish-mash of everything. Some people leave room at the beginning to keep an index of categories, and some – I include myself in this group – just throw things in randomly.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Taking notes physically has a different effect on the brain, and aids with recall and processing of information in a way that digital note taking does not (see this piece from Harvard<\/a>), so it’s likely that just by picking up a pen and writing something down, we stand a better chance of remembering what it was we found so fascinating anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Your commonplace book is just a notebook where you collect quotes from things you’re reading, observations, passing thoughts – in short, anything that catches your attention that you want to remember. You can use it for one specific purpose, if you are focused on one project, or you can make it a mish-mash of everything.… Continue reading The commonplace book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2bsZn-1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/full.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/full.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/full.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/full.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/full.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/full.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"http:\/\/full.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/full.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/full.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/full.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}