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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I Reread My Commonplace Book for Years. Nothing Happened.
Before I built Ember, my commonplace book lived in Evernote. I remember scrolling through the quotes I’d saved from Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull’s ideas on candor and creativity, lines I’d pulled out because they’d stopped me mid-page. Rer...
Journal vs. Commonplace Book: Why You Need Both
I started a thinking session in Ember with this question: What’s the difference between a journal and a commonplace book?
They’re two very different tools — but it’s not this or that. It’s both/and. It’s the equivalent of having a hammer a...
Why You Should Reread Your Notes
I started a thinking session in Ember the other day with a line that looks like a throwaway line but isn’t one at all.
“And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were impaled on poles. All this was reco...
Why I Keep a Commonplace Book (and Always Will)
I started a thinking session in Ember with a question: why keep a commonplace book at all. What’s the point?
For me, it comes back to that Emerson line:
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all those words and sentences that in all y...
What Do You Actually Put in a Commonplace Book?
The other day I started a thinking session in Ember with a simple question: what do I actually put in my commonplace book?
I’ve written about how to keep a commonplace book, and how to think with one. But this question comes before both, a...
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