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Now the cat is out of the bag about our upcoming Big One theme: “Commonplace” we thought we’d take a deeper dive into commonplacing!
A commonplace book is a personal collection of knowledge — a space where you gather and organise quotes, ideas, reflections, facts, and inspiration you encounter in your reading, thinking, or daily life.
A commonplace book organises what you find meaningful or useful — from the outside world or from your own thoughts.
Commonplace books have been used since the Renaissance. Thinkers like Marcus Aurelius, John Locke, and Virginia Woolf all kept them. In an age before Google, this was how people collected knowledge, made sense of what they learned, and built their intellectual lives.
You can include:
There are no rules — it’s your personal archive of meaning.
In short, a commonplace book is a tool for lifelong learning — a place where your ideas, influences, and insights can live and grow.
The Big One is our quarterly journaling subscription, where we take a deeper dive into a self-care, self-development or productivity concept.
For our September 2025 box we will be exploring the concept of Commonplacing in more depth, with a bumper bundle of tools to help you incorporate the method into your journal.
Subscriptions are now open to new subscribers *while stocks last*
Our quarterly journaling subscription, designed to help you explore a self-development or self-care concept all through the medium of gorgeous stationery!
