Paper Trails: How Notebooks Changed The World | Roland Allen
The Daily Stoic
The Notebook as a Second Brain
The concept of a commonplace book, originally devised by Erasmus in the 1510s, was a way of managing information overload in a time when there was too much for one person to read. The notebook served as a 'second brain' to store and organize information, a tool that is still relevant and valued today.
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