# Remember Everything With This Pocket Notebook System

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Eric Pfohl]]
- Full Title: Remember Everything With This Pocket Notebook System
- Category: #articles
- Document Tags: [[notetaking]] 
- URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swC4MAryYRw
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> [!tldr]
> A Commonplace Notebook is a helpful tool for collecting and organizing ideas, quotes, and details from various sources like books and podcasts. It allows you to document wisdom in one place, making it easier to reference later. Using pen and paper for this process can enhance your memory and creativity.

## Highlights
a Commonplace Notebook is a way to collect details around you that are relevant to you in some way rather than writing things down introspectively like a diary or Journal would be a Commonplace Notebook is a way to document things only from external sources [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j70zaykjztys0bef0xp5ef4e))

they allow you to document and collect any ideas in a singular place that you can refer back to at any time [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j70zcrej9xvmp5905czk027r))

if you're somebody like me who likes organization the thought of just a bunch of random ideas on the pages seems a little bit overwhelming and messy but honestly the organization of your Commonplace Notebook is nothing to worry about our thoughts ideas and minds are constantly going in a million different directions and realistically your Commonplace Notebook is going to be an extension of
that [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j70zkh7h2rtdjrptg01f854g))

one way to do this is to leave the first page or two of your notebook blank so that way when you fill the notebook you can put an index on those blank pages [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j70znccjr4srj337fdjqmw79))

you can highlight certain categories in specific colors or you can even write in different colored inks depending on the topic [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j70zp3p890b8kdqx21w2gqm8))

with a Commonplace Notebook I do think is a great idea to collect your observed details and expand upon them further through writing [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j70zrzc6s2g9x9768b2596qa))

