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Picasso, the Poet: A Notation
"I would prefer to invent a grammar of my own."
Re-Noted: 3 Ways to Take Travel Notes
Take notes like it's 1826
John Milton's Notes on Marriage and Divorce: A Notation
"…the apt and cheerfull conversation of man with woman, to comfort and refresh him against the evill of solitary life."
Ludwig van Beethoven's Conversation Notebooks: A Notation
"...history could eavesdrop on much of Beethoven’s daily discourse.”
Katharine Hepburn's Promptbook
Introducing the Notation Series
Three Notebooks Behind Thomas Jefferson's Legacy
"I determined to abridge in a common place book, every thing of value which I read."
Re-Noted: 3 Lessons on Writing from Joan Didion's Notes
"It gets me past the blank terror."
P.S. I Indexed 70 Notebooks. Here's What I Learned.
How I made 21 years of notes searchable
Note-Taking Rituals
A Celebration of the May 2026 Commonplace Book Club
How Austin Kleon Keeps it Fun and Weird
"Because I am insane, I keep four different notebooks"