How & Why I Commonplace ✸ A Look At My Commonplace Book

[@bethehappyturtle84]

This is so good! You are giving me more to think about when it comes to my common place/bullet journal. Especially because I have an autoimmune disease and there is so much information to keep and remember. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@moonlit.journal]

Thank you os much! ❤ I'm so glad it was helpful! I highly recommend documenting health information in your commonplace, I've found it so beneficial.

[@Kdmud]

Wow, I just stumbled onto your channel. Thank you, your commonplace system has really ignited a fire under me to go deeper in mine. I have been a bit neglectful of mine because I was doing the copy information of my interests. I was definitely following the “rules” which at first gave me comfort, but over time I think became too detached for my liking. So many ideas and expansive thoughts just popped up in my mind while watching your wonderful video! Another subscriber !👏🏽🌟

[@moonlit.journal]

Thank you so much for sharing this with me, it made my day! ❤I'm so happy you found some value in this video. And I think sometimes it's okay to journal on "autopilot" if that's what will get you to write consistently, but it's wonderful that you are re-evaluating how you want to interact with your commonplace. I definitely need to as well!

[@Kdmud]

@ Thank you❤️

[@jenniferh1812]

I really enjoyed this video. You’re so articulate and the way you explained your commonplace approach now has me thinking more about my own!

[@moonlit.journal]

@@jenniferh1812 this made my day, thank you!! ❤️ I’m so glad you enjoyed this video. :)

[@TheCommonCorner]

Hi! I really enjoyed hearing your take on commonplacing- your topics of choice are also so interesting. I look forward to hearing more about how the TN is working as a home for your commonplacing 🥰🍀

[@moonlit.journal]

Thank you so much for the thoughtful message! I'm so glad you found it interesting ❤❤And yes I very much look forward to settling into the TN for my commonplace! 🙂

[@Miomena]

Hi, I just want to thank you for your videos! I found you not long ago and I currently watch all of your videos. The way you talk and the videos in general are so comforting to me. I am currently designing my bachelor project and i am stressing very much. When I put your videos on, I become calmer.

[@moonlit.journal]

This made my day! 🥺❤ Thank you so much for leaving such a thoughtful and lovely comment. This truly means so much to me! I'm so glad you've found some value from my videos and I'm happy to have you here. Best of luck on your bachelors project!

[@yamrector2]

I divided my interest in different Notebooks. I also concentrate more in the text, but I always add some relevant photo, sticker, quote, washi tape, scrapbooking paper etc to make it easier to the eye. I don't concentrate on a planner as I am 69 years old and my daily life for say, doesn't have much interest. But I am very spiritual and music oriented, so I have a notebook dedicated to just Music, usually meaningful, one notebook dedicated to the life changing singer and peace seeker Dimash Qudainberger, a past traumas notebook I am starting now, and a Spiritual notebook. My life is full and interesting to me thanks those notebook that are pieces of me. Very much like yours! ♥️

[@moonlit.journal]

Thank you so much for sharing! ❤I really enjoyed learning about how you use your notebooks. I completely agree that notebooks are pieces of ourselves, very well said. ✨

[@lexandlorex]

I absolutely adore seeing your pages! & you talking about the threads and themes connecting through typically uncommon topics had me sitting back and rethinking my entire commonplace book hahaa! I never thought of it that way and now I’m excited to flip back through my pages and find those common threads

[@moonlit.journal]

Wow that is so kind of you to say, thank you! 🤍🥰 I'm so glad you found some value in this video! It's always so much fun noticing those patterns in our books over time.

[@pikolowet]

I thought I lost the internet in the end (I'm listening as I clean things up in my house) :D I've been journaling/commonplacing for som any years and it never really struck me to involve both the text AND my reflections on it. And to art not to make it pretty, but to make it easily readable! Thank you so much for the video

[@moonlit.journal]

Thank you for watching, and for the thoughtful comment! ❤ And haha so sorry about it cutting off at the end like that 😅

[@OldWhistler7743]

It was interesting seeing your set up and how much you write. I don’t know if I could do that much without my writing turning into an undecipherable scrawl, but I always appreciate when anyone else does it. Just one thing…..you mentioned once a month you have major problems. I used to have uncontrollable temper each month. So suggested I eat two bananas a few days before my period was due and carry on eating them till a couple of days after I’d started my period. Initially I laughed, thinking it wouldn’t be any use, but I did try it and I did it every month, and I never had another temper issue, in fact everything was so calm. It might be worth trying.

[@moonlit.journal]

Thank you so much for your comment! I appreciate the suggestion as well ❤

[@OldWhistler7743]

@@moonlit.journal You’re welcome. I hope it helps x

[@BarbaraWest-oops]

Thank you, this was very interesting! Years ago, in my teens and twenties, I had what would now be called a Commonplace Book/ I've recently thought about resuming a similar practice, and I was drawn to your mix and placement of text and visuals. I have often wondered how various youtubers pick stickers and other decorative elements; so often it seems random, "What I like" or "What I'm trying to use up," but that is obviously not the case with your book. Do you clip images that strike you with the intent to journal or annotate them in the near future? Or do you select them and then examine your collection to find fitting images to use? Your layouts are so calming, visually!

[@moonlit.journal]

Thank you so much for watching and supporting! ❤How wonderful that you'd like to start up a commonplace practice again, please let me know if you end up doing so! 🙂 As for your question about visuals, I typically find visuals after knowing what I'd like to write about. If there's a topic I'm particularly interested in, I then find and print out the relevant visuals, compose the page with those visuals, and then write around them. I'm glad you enjoyed my layouts!

[@JenniHobbies]

To me, since we are in the era of being able to access any fact in 2.2 seconds online, the best use of a commonplace book isn't collecting facts. It's remembering that the fact interested you, in the first place. That's a very different thing. Then you can launch your research when you remember it interested you. As an avid journaler of all flavors, it's more than a little annoying when the masses take a specific system and invariably morph into "aesthetic journal du jour, with a different name." Aesthetic/art/junk journaling and planning is already a thing. Diary journaling is already a thing. To-do and straight planning, a thing. Bullet journaling is a specific system. Hybrid journaling is a specific thing. Commonplacing IS A SPECIFIC THING. Obviously I'm not claiming one shouldn't customize. But it's really a problem for people who seek information, videos, blogs on a specific type of journaling and keep ending up with content that really just aesthetic/art journaling called by the wrong name. We need to back that trend down.