commonplace-book
Personal excerpt compilation
A commonplace-book is a personal notebook for recording memorable passages, quotations, ideas, and observations gathered from reading or experience.
The practice dates to the Renaissance, when scholars compiled extracts organized by theme for later reference and reflection: She kept a commonplace-book of poetry that moved her.
Collected literary works volume
- compendiumCondensed reference collection
- collectionGathered set of items
- treasuryStored organizational funds
- digestMetabolize or summarize
miscellany · excerpts · extracts · gleanings · selections · clippings · cuttings · passages
Record of daily events
- diaryPersonal daily record
- daybookDaily transaction register
- ledgerFinancial record book
- registerRecord officially; vocal range
log · cahier · chapbook · manuscript · folio · volume · leaves · pages
Dutch Renaissance humanist
- LockeEnglish empiricist philosopher's surname
- MiltonBaroque English verse master
- JeffersonThird American president
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
humanist · classical · rhetorical · invention · topoi · scholarship · erudition · learning
Focused contemplative practice
- musingsLeisurely contemplative thoughts
- contemplationsSustained thoughtful considerations
- ruminationsExtended contemplative thoughts
- thoughtsMental reflections
insights · observations · notes · jottings · scribblings · remarks · commentary · ideas
anthology
Collected literary works volume
- compendiumCondensed reference collection
- collectionGathered set of items
- treasuryStored organizational funds
digest · miscellany · excerpts · extracts · gleanings · selections · clippings · cuttings · passages · fragments
journal
Record of daily events
register · log · cahier · chapbook · manuscript · folio · volume · leaves · pages · binding
Erasmus
Dutch Renaissance humanist
- LockeEnglish empiricist philosopher's surname
- MiltonBaroque English verse master
- JeffersonThird American president
Renaissance · humanist · classical · rhetorical · invention · topoi · scholarship · erudition · learning · letters
meditations
Focused contemplative practice
- musingsLeisurely contemplative thoughts
- contemplationsSustained thoughtful considerations
- ruminationsExtended contemplative thoughts
thoughts · insights · observations · notes · jottings · scribblings · remarks · commentary · ideas · impressions
aphorisms
Concise memorable truths
adages · axioms · dicta · bons mots · sayings · precepts · mottos · truisms · wisdom · gnomes
commonplace-bookdiary
Personal daily record
journal · memoir · autobiography · personal journal · personal narrative
commonplace-bookephemera
Disposables preserved as collectibles
scrap paper · rough draft · junk mail · shopping list · to-do list
common, place, book, commonly, commonness, uncommon, commonality, commons, commoner