Issue #48 (The Power of Small Wins) 01/13/20
I've featured knowledge base tools multiple times in this newsletter and at one point I stumbled upon a Wikipedia article on something called a Commonplace book. According to the article, these types of books have been kept by people since Greek and Roman times (about the 2nd Century), and the idea is very similar to what people do today when compiling knowledge bases with modern technology.
By the seventeenth century, the practice of keeping a commonplace book had become so recognized that it was formally taught to college students in schools like Oxford.
A 17th Century Commonplace book
It's certainly interesting to see how many of the things we attempt to do today really aren't that different from the things people did centuries ago. We've just got fancier tools to do them!
Now on to this week's hand-picked productivity links!
