pondering how to combine John Locke’s Commonplace book indexing method from the 1600s, with modern Orgmode and Orgcapture

Recently learned about the concept of the Commonplace book. A practice of collecting and cataloging sayings, ideas, and concepts in a book, which dates back to at least the Greeks. It was widely practiced during the renaissance. I found this copy of John Locke’s book on how to create a Commonplace book from the 1600s. The first Orgmode, or Obsidian.

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A new method of making common-place-books; : Locke, John,1632-1704 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Held by Gallaudet University Library Deaf Collections and Archives, Washington, D.C. (catalog link: http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?B...

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Commonplace book - Wikipedia

TIL, at one point in the mid 1500s, the writings of Erasmus accounted for 20% of all book sales in Europe.

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"Let us take down one of those old notebooks which we have all, at one time or another, had a passion for beginning. Most of the pages are blank, it is true; but at the beginning we shall find a certain number very beautifully covered with a strikingly legible hand-writing. Here we have written down the names of great writers in their order of merit; here we have copied out fine passages from the classics; here are lists of books to be read; and here, most interesting of all, lists of books that have actually been read, as the reader testifies with some youthful vanity by a dash of red ink." — Virginia Woolf

i think parts of history like this are so interesting

Commonplace book - Wikipedia

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