About this place
A small notebook
on the web.
Commonplace is a place for ideas that deserve a little more attention.
A commonplace book is a collection of things worth returning to: passages from books, observations, questions, and connections between them. This site follows the same simple idea.
The notes here are short and deliberately unhurried. They are arranged around reading, making things, and everyday life. There is no particular schedule; a notebook grows a page at a time.