I’m adding things to it slowly, but I’ve created a Connected Learning page curating my notes, memos, and blog posts on this topic. I have so much more to add.

πŸ”– Read How I Build My Common Place Book

πŸ”– Read How I Build My Common Place Book (Greg McVerry)

McVerry generously summarizes his workflow:

  • Document impetus of thought (often after the fact)
  • Collect initial bookmarks
  • Ask in networks, bookmark your queries
  • Collect research, and block quotes or use social annotations
  • Begin to formulate thoughts in random blog posts
  • Start to draft the long form thought
  • Publish an article on my Domain.

Next time I take it into my head that words won’t come out of me in written form, I’m going to re-read this 2018 blog post in which I calculated that I wrote 98,000 words in the first 5 semesters of my doctoral program.