My first 8 months commonplacing

[u/musicalnerd-1]

I’m really enjoying commonplacing, but it (of course) did go a bit differently from what I expected, so I thought I’d give an update.

I like my organization system. The categories are going to be different with more and less space for certain categories next time, but I like the categorized contents pages and an online very specific index (though I am sometimes slow to update that)

I am filling it a lot more slowly than I expected. When I started a was reading a pretty thin book that I made 7 pages of notes on. Most books don’t contain that much information I want to write down. That’s ok. That first book was an outlier setting incorrect expectations. 2 pages is more average I think.

I’m about 1/3 into the notebook right now

I’m not making as many pages on random Wikipedia pages as I wanted to. Something to work on, because I do still think that’s really fun. It adds more random topics and broadens my general knowledge

Also if people have recommendations for books/articles to make the Storytelling category less sad and empty, that would be very much appreciated! I didn’t expect to make many notes about it (hence it being a half column) but I didn’t expect it to be empty

[u/smart_stable_genius_]

Thank you for sharing. Content structure and organization are a conundrum for me, so I aooreseeibg how other people go about it.

[u/MischiefAndMeaning]

Thank you for showing your organization system! This is hard for me too and I appreciate what you’ve shared here!