The Idea Shepherd
Greg WheelerHow to think deeply and find patterns in your own mind — through the practice of keeping a digital commonplace book.
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Thinking with Pictures: A Digital Commonplace Book Tour
Ember just got images. Yep, I’m pretty stoked (see what I did there?).
You can now save screenshots, photos, and drawings to your commonplace book right next to your quotes, then open a journal reflection and think out loud about what caug...
The Commonplace Book App That Makes Thinking Feel Calm Again
In this video, I walk through the latest updates to Ember’s homepage—designed to turn your commonplace book into a calm, reflective space where you can linger with your thoughts instead of endlessly scrolling.
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What's a Yellow Leaf Doing in My Commonplace Book?
This reflection started in Ember, the app I built for thinking with my commonplace book.
When I picture a commonplace book, I picture words. A line from a book that stopped you. A sentence you didn’t want to forget, so you wrote it...
"Read this book, even if you're not a writer"
If you have a notebook or notes app full of lines you loved once and haven't opened since, this book is for you.
Thinking with a Commonplace Book helps you sit and think with the ideas you’ve saved for years but have forgotten about. It’s...
Why I Refuse to Turn My Commonplace Book Into a Database
A recent journal reflection in Ember got me thinking…
There are two things you do with an idea that matters. You treasure it, and you give it careful thought. That's how Mary, the mother of Jesus, handled the biggest news of her life. I'll...
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