The Idea Shepherd
Greg WheelerHere to help you keep a commonplace book, notice more, and think deeply.
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The 15-Minute Pocket Notebook Routine
The other morning, two tiny pages held a quote from Marcus Aurelius, an old Greek word, two Bible verses, a reminder about teaching my daughter to drive, and a new idea for my commonplace book app.
I’ve been doing a lot of my thinking in a...
How to Think Deeper With a Field Notes Notebook
Sometimes the biggest ideas hide behind the smallest words.
Recently it was the word front. Five letters. One set of brackets. And it led me from Thoreau’s woods, to a poem from yesterday, to a prayer Moses wrote thousands of years ago....
How to Think in a Pocket Notebook (in 10 Minutes)
I almost skipped my pocket notebook this morning.
I had about ten minutes before I needed to leave, and ten minutes didn’t feel like enough.
But I opened it anyway. I copied a short Emily Dickinson poem and a quote from Erwin McManus. Wh...
How I Use a Pocket Notebook to Slow Down, Copy by Hand, and Find Original Ideas
Most of my best ideas lately have not come from trying to have ideas.
They come from copying someone else’s words slowly, by hand, into a little notebook I keep in my back pocket.
This morning I put on some acoustic music and flipped thr...
The 5-Year-Old’s Guide to Commonplace Books
About a week ago I saved this drawing into Ember.
Two little faces. Your 85-year-old self and your 5-year-old self. Those are the only two people you’re supposed to impress. I journaled about it as a filter for living a fruitful life.
Th...
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