Centuries ago, long before highlighters, sticky notes, and productivity apps, people faced one significant problem: how to hold onto important ideas. Their solution? Commonplace books. In the late ...

I keep a journal of quotes, lines from songs, poetry. Nothing is my original thought — but all of it struck me as meaningful when I wrote it down. By Charley Locke I’ve never been a journal person, ...

THE manuscript generally, but inaptly, called "Berkeley's Commonplace Book" is a document of unique interest in philosophical literature. Berkeley took his B.A. at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1704 at ...