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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The best note-taking app is a $10 sprinkler
Think about the last time you thought deeply. Not a clever thought — a deep one. The kind you had to stay with for a while.
Now think about the last time you did that consistently. Day after day, week after week.
What were you using?
Hol...
Journaling Is How You Keep the Water Moving
Water that stops moving turns. First it goes still, then green, then thick. A swamp isn’t a different substance than a river — it’s the same water that quit going somewhere.
Your mind works like this too. Thoughts, questions, worries, half...
500-Year-Old Commonplace Book Wisdom from a Spanish Knight
It is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul. — Ignatius of Loyola
I wasn’t looking for this one. I was shuffling through quotes my commonplace book the way you flip through...
How to Get More From Your Commonplace Book by Collecting Less
Phrases really begin once we’ve stopped playing. — Julian Lage
I heard this from a guitar player I admire, and at first I thought — what? What does that even mean? But the moment I stopped and sat with it, it started to make sense.
Melo...
How to Use a Commonplace Book to Turn Old Highlights Into New Ideas
Every intellectual endeavor starts with a note. — Sönke Ahrens
I copied those seven words out of How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens the first time I read the book. Not because I had a plan for them. I copied them the way you copy a...
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