Commonplace book
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Commonplace books are personal notebooks used to compile any information the owner finds interesting or useful. They can variously contain notes, proverbs, adages, aphorisms, maxims, recipes, quotes,
A commonplace book from the mid-seventeenth century
Zibaldone di pensieri, written by the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi
Diary
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A diary is a written or audiovisual memorable record, with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. Diaries have traditionally been ha
Commonplace book
…Renaissance and in the nineteenth century. Entries are most often organized under systematic subject headings and differ functionally from journals or diaries, which are chronological and introspective. "Commonplace" is a calque of the Latin term locus communis (from Greek tópos koinós, see literary topos…
A facsimile of the original diary of Anne Frank on display in Berlin
Pocket diary 1860 with ruler for scale
Samuel Pepys
Faustina Kowalska