>[!abstract] >**Commonplace books** (or **commonplaces**) are personal notebooks used to compile any information the owner, often an intellectual or writer, finds interesting or useful. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century (adapted from Wikipedia). >[!related] >- **North** (upstream): — >- **West** (similar): — >- **East** (different): — >- **South** (downstream): —