Commonplace Books
While perusing Rebecca Blood’s website, she introduced me to Commonplace books.
Her original findings came from Long Haired Child with two articles:
These articles also discuss how blogs are similiar to the common place book, but that you might feel more comfortable recording in the privacy of you notepad things you don’t know. The basic function of the book, record things you don’t know like words, names etc, if your thinking about something a lot, take a note, carry it with you and lastly, reflect on it at some point.
When notebooks/notepads are ever discussed it is always that case that Moleskine comes up. The notebook of legend apparently used by Van Gogh, Picasso et al. Modo&Modo makes a similiar style to that spoken of in notebook legend.