That's interesting. Presumably where we have been told that diaries and journals were being kept there were notebooks being created and re-formed. Diaries were kept but clearly not all writing was journaling. Notes were being taken. Fascinating, Mike, thank you
— mizminh (@mizminh) January 11, 2022
@mizminh @MikeKra36812131 These notebooks were often historically called commonplace books, zettelkasten, waste books, florilegia, etc.
@mizminh @MikeKra36812131 Steven Johnson wrote a little bit about his own digital version of this process which he uses to write his books back in 2005:
https://stevenberlinjohnson.com/tool-for-thought-b12c170fcc24
Syndicated copies:
With a lovely flower drawn into this illuminated printed leaf from the Floretus cum commento, a twelfth-century florilegium attributed to Bernard de Clairvaux [Cologne, 1499], could this make Clairvaux the patron saint of the #DigitalGarden? 🌱
boffosocko.com/2021/06/11/557…