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it helps me stay sane enough to make more videos hhhhh

omg hi 😂 I've almost clicked before but I usually watch things around 15 minutes long I was going to click on the "Commonplace with Me" videos but when it's a new channel and I see the video is over half an hour long I'm like uhhhhhh they included a ring binder but your newest video included the subject AND the book we talked about (which I've only ever seen like 5 times on UA-cam including in one of my videos)

I've heard of it! Your comment will probably help anyone who watches this video and is confused haha. Obsidian, just like Evernote, Google Docs, and a bunch of digital equivalents or variations, are likely considerably better for the average person. Technically those are more of a "personal knowledge base" than a "commonplace book". But this video shows off something more like a journal so I clearly need to work on my titles and descriptions. 😂 I've heard that the features of Obsidian are quite extensive. To the point where it even has the ability to download backup documents AND has a functional discord community. But those aren't the things I'm going for. My current goal is about modifying the education system over the course of centuries using several currently available tools. One of the tools of course being an altered version of a traditional Commonplace Book. Due to the fact that I've avoided talking about it... this channel is going to be someone incoherent until at least a month into 2025. I have something huge planned; but, the project is only about 1% recorded so there might be some delays. Thanks for the comment! I hope it helps!

@@thepostgradyear thats cool! keep being great! :)

thanks! another video just like this one should be coming out on the 18th but that's the last of this set the good news is that the second set actually had some thought put into it (with the exception of the thumbnails) so it should be better but we'll see!

yeah confusion seems to be going around basically this is "How to - Data - Year 2" but as it is me simply talking about the main types of videos on Commonplace Books, it might have been more accurate to label it as something like: "Searching for the least overused format of videos on How to Make a Commonplace Book and presenting a numbered list of what I believe are the most frequent types of framing as of fall 2023 with items higher on the list having more views and items near the top but with a smaller number signifying what is likely a more efficient type of video to make" but that's an absurdly long title and it's still not totally accurate the main type of person who would benefit from such information is the type of person who makes videos on the search term "Commonplace Book" and as that only applies to roughly 50 - 500 people depending on how we count it - this video broke containment haha in the future I plan on making this sort of thing much more clear and understandable in both the first 30 seconds and the description - and we're approaching the second scheduled set of 10 so I guess you can tell me how I did (if you're willing to risk not getting anything out of a second video) thanks for watching the full video! If you're looking for a specific type of video like "How to make a commonplace book" or simply want something explained in a slightly different way; I'll probably reply within 3 hours to 3 days (no promises lol) - but there's currently a glitch on the channel (and others) which sometimes hides comments (unless someone uses the "sort by" button (to find them) to the right of the number of comments on the video)

@@thepostgradyear ok thanks for the explanation I watched your pend and the last one also but still don't understand what is commonplace book exactly

@@ha3908 watched your pend? Okay so the definition of a commonplace book depends on who you ask. Some people will say it's basically anything related to a journal/scrapbook/album/etc. from the last few thousands years. Others will say it's only something done by White Christian thinkers in a specific style lined out by one specific British guy and then focused on something like quotes from the same types of guys. Normally people are somewhat in between the two extremes. If I were to explain a medium between those two I might say something like: To me a Commonplace Book is simply the book a person uses to understand their personal library, themselves, and/or the combination of ideas. It's a practice that doesn't really exist anymore. At least percentage wise. The portion of the population that does it might actually be higher than at most other points of history. But in the modern era it usually makes more sense to use digital applications and the internet. If the book was for summaries, lists, notes, and all the other stuff we use computers for... then literally why use a book? We have many apps and websites which now fill pretty much whatever void a person who commonplaces could want. With the main exceptions of using it like a scrapbook or having a book no one can hack. If you want an easy to understand definition or complete understanding I would probably try this: 1. read the top paragraph on the commonplace book wiki (after finishing this comment) 2. read the top paragraph on the personal knowledge base wiki 3. watch 5 different videos (1 from 5 different channels) on what a commonplace book is but above all: just remember that none of the definitions are satisfactory as we're talking about something that might be almost entirely fact or fiction, words or visuals, science or faith, etc. I like to think of it as journals/scrapbooks/albums/etc. being a bunch of square tiles on a floor and commonplace books being the definition of a rectangle.

@@thepostgradyear ok even though nothing good came after the words British guy but I looked up commonplace books and lowkey am interested Am going to do one and see like literally just bought a notebook for it

@@ha3908 thanks for being patient with me! part of the reason why I'm a bit hesitant to give a precise answer on what commonplace books are is.. oh wait this might be a list haha: - one of the people who put out one of the most viewed and liked videos on commonplace books just got roasted in their comment section for it "not being a commonplace book" - the definition of a commonplace book depends on which eras of history a person thinks it belongs to - like if they think it goes back thousands of years that's like trying to define what a roman solider was with one definition for kingdom, republic, empire, multiple empires, byzantine empire, etc. - I'm trying to create a modernized version which is workable for children and used in schools - aka my definition has to be different so I probably won't explain it in the least loaded or repackaged way the British guy people normally refer to is John Locke and I am quite frustrated with his system because it's what I started with and found many parts of his process to be uhhhh designed in a way I found unsatisfactory - people will often use his system to build their own but it's fairly rare to find someone who actually follows it completely - I think this is one of the reasons why people are so confused - because a large percentage of people focus their learning on one guy and then grab bits of his system before either expanding it or focusing on only a single aspect that suits their needs

so interesting that you're going to try it out? 🤯 oh wow you have twice as many now thanks for your comment! you too!

thanks! I really like the extra space a larger binder provides. However, they are a bit awkward to carry around. I hope it works out!

thanks! I think I can add one or two to the regular list of tags. If I add more than that it might simply be too many tags.

Thanks! Do you want me to hold it up more? Or simply focus more on the writing than my face? Or maybe a flip through? Perhaps something more complex like hold it up and edit in a highlight or underline for whatever I'm reading as I read it? I'm a bit confused.

hi! omg you got here so quickly 🤯 congrats on the first comment and maybe the first view I'm happy you found something you love! ✨ reply: I agree that binders are inconvenient to carry around. Ring notebooks are fine but they're simply not what I'm used to. I think the most important thing is that someone actually uses their system. As long as it's possible to take things out or put things in a system I'm usually a fan of it. extra: If someone is very mobile, I might actually recommend something like taking notes verbally and then checking the transcription at the end of the week. I haven't tried out that sort of system because the tech simply wasn't good enough when I was in high school. I think a lot of what a person ends up using depends on which resources they have the easiest access to. For me binders were a great choice as I finally got into a living situation where people wouldn't steal from me constantly. This was super cool as I could actually create my own physical stuff and the bulkiness of large binders was part of the appeal. Although of course it was also useful to be able to access more than 100 pages without having to open additional binders or notebooks or whatever. But the main reason I went with the binders was because I still had them from high school and one of the only things I could get basically for free was unlimited sheets of printer paper. btw I'm somewhat confused as to why the videos marked as ideas are doing so well but I could probably keep making them at this pace and quality basically forever. As far as I can tell they have the best energy expenditure for the number of views. I'll probably do more but I think I'll cap it at 10 for 2024 and maybe have a larger number in 2025 idk.

@@thepostgradyear ty, love how passionately you talk about this topic tbh! Keep making more!

@@ehhsketch ty! keep making more videos or more idea videos specifically?

@@thepostgradyear more videos!

@@thepostgradyear oh sorry I didn't initially read the full reply missed it. That's interesting use of using what's available to you I agree. Also I think they do better because they are more easily applied to one's own system. I'm currently thinking also trying to dive into the world of commonplace books and hopefully develop something to make med school easier for myself, there's obsidian which I might tap into but with new tools come a lot of challenges of learning, I do like the idea of using binders but I'm afraid I won't find it portable or easily accessible enough. Tabs definitely help but like for relationships between different concepts binders can be limiting. Obviously I find your takes interesting

oh hey lol I think something glitched because I was only able to find your comment when I clicked "sort by" on this video after manually clicking on it - as this comment didn't show up in notifications, in the place where people reply to comments, or in the specific comment area for this video specifically this happened to me when commenting on another person's video a few weeks ago so it might just be a glitch on the platform we had been commenting a lot back and forth so it might be that there's some sort of system in place to prevent people from doing that idk anyways I'm quite surprised to see you commenting on this video specifically because I thought the "ideas" videos would flop as they take so little time to make compared to almost everything else lol but right I should reply to you: I think I saw Everbook in one of your videos, and if not it was in the comments. I just looked around for a few minutes and the second most popular video on their channel (or at least one named Everbook) looks very familiar but I don't think I watched the video I tried having many binders and storing things physically but I got to a point where I was like: ummm over 25 was difficult to store but this is a life problem haha so since around October 2020 I've been pretty much entirely digital simply due to the fact that my ability to create new ideas and write things down for the first time far exceeds my ability to review and rewrite existing works - basically infinite thoughts but a non infinite living space the cabinets and shelves were very satisfying to look at and I felt a great sense of accomplishment but knowing I had more than 10,000 sheets of paper in my room drove me a bit crazy haha if I went back to analog I would have to follow very specific rules and idk if I'm ready for that the good news is that I wrote all I'll need to write for a long time haha now I'm just learning how to present it!

thanks for letting me know I'm gonna make it! what even is this? Title: - this is "Commonplace Book: How To - Data - Year 2" - "Commonplace Book" - done as a binder - "How To - Data" - the closest (as far as I know) as to the data anyone has tried to create and share about the performance and view count of UA-cam videos that include "Commonplace Book" in the title - "Year 2" - the second year of me working on this project Thumbnail: - the thumbnail simply shows me, what I'm going to talk about, and what will be in the video Description: - the description is more of a live react than a descriptive description Process: - explained in my video "Commonplace Book: 470 Thumbnails - Year 2" - although as this was also done in one take you might want to start at 7 minutes Presentation: - instead of constantly keeping the handwritten information on screen or duplicating it with edited white text that I leave on screen - I decided to simply set the binder down and talk about it - if you're looking for the information in the video and can't get it from my spoken words - simply click on the exact times at which I hold up the binder - if you can read my handwriting you can get all the information - in summary: when I hold up the binder the information is visible Other: - this was done in one take when I had 5 - 35 subs - this is why there is so much random laughing - no idea if anyone would watch - no idea if the process or project would be interesting or allowed - total gamble - I've been considering presenting this information digitally as a "Personal knowledge base" but there hasn't been any pressure to do so - unusual stats on this video: over 10% of my subs have come from this video directly, this video has one of the lowest average percentage viewed, this video is one of the most disliked videos on the channel - my current assumptions are that these stats are due to the novelty factor and failure to explain in the first 30 seconds and description

@@thepostgradyear well the algorithm started randomly recommending this video to people (me), so do with that data what you will

@@SgFlaxy omg thanks for letting me know! so uh any idea how you got here? 😂

@@thepostgradyear no idea how the yt algorithm works, it does for some reason recommend me sub 100 or 1000 views videos sometimes, but usually it's stream vods. (I tried refreshing the homepage and out of 3 tries there was always one in the same spot, namely "invest in bamboo" from some guy homesteading in Thailand, some child talking about diary of a wimpy kid 2 and a song; no idea why, it just became part of the algorithm a few years ago)

@@SgFlaxy I think there was a change a few months or years ago that changed 1 or 2 of the first 12 video slots on the homepage to videos from small channels but I'm not sure about that. Hmm I guess all of those things are at least vaguely related but it's a bit of a stretch. My guess (which I'm not very confident about lol) is that you might have seen a video about Christian women homeschooling their kids or talking about stationary/organization/do it yourself/arts and crafts in a home that appears to be self sufficient. It's possible that other comments on this channel influenced the who showed up. I just had a long chain of replies on another video - with a person very focused on getting through medical school and memory related medical UA-camrs. Perhaps because I've been leaving a lot of comments on the channel of a Japanese artist living in Canada? Maybe a combination of things like the second most common viewer country being Brazil right now might be specifically targeting the small population of Brazilians with Japanese ancestry. All I know is that I saw your reply show up within 1 minute and went to write a reply but this is probably not what you're looking for haha. Anyways it's very exciting to hear someone saw this randomly! I am curious as to what got you to click 👀 also if this reply is a problem just let me know and I'll delete it.

That's so cool! The most durable binder I have uses plastic sleeves to protect the pages. It's almost 20 years old at this point - and is the best record of what life was like back then! I hope your art pieces and family pictures stay just as well protected! ✨

thanks so much! unintentional ASMR? maybe I should stop relying on my phone for audio haha

thanks! In the later videos I end up actually talking about the subject - rather than accidentally spending a minute talking about my hair XD

No ads this year! Although we'll see what happens in the future because I need a new place to live LOL. I'm not quite sure why such a high percentage of the videos feel like ads (but I have a bunch of ideas as to why). Do you like Field Notes, Moleskin, and Bullet Journals or do you just struggle through the videos? Thanks for the comment!

@@thepostgradyear jajaja no worries. you gotta eat. Wish you all the best. I like them, they are pretty entertaining but sometimes you just want a real life example.

@@mezalos If you're looking for anything in particular just let me know. I think I have enough written for well over 1000 videos; but, if you want something prioritized I could probably fit in a few videos per year. This sort of "data" video seems to be doing quite well (potentially because it's basically just me reading keywords) so I'll keep the rest of the playlist scheduled for this year and maybe finish the next 30 ((hopefully) in the first half of) next year. If the data videos are objectively what people want, I'll probably push to create at least 100 of them... although there is a limit on how many I can make - due to them being based on observations of a shrinking sample size. The data videos probably take roughly 10x the time of a normal video I make so... I can't make them every day haha. but yeah when it comes to real life examples: are you looking for something more like a time lapse of a person working at their desk? or a guy reading through a self made book on edible roots, berries, and mushrooms while foraging in a park with no cell service?

thanks! this one is kind of a mess but the later videos from this playlist will look a lot better and be way more helpful starting the week after next! although I think the next one is probably the biggest mess of them all 😂

thanks! I was really nervous about it! Was anything super surprising? Or was it more of a good reminders kind of thing?

@@thepostgradyear I wouldn’t say super duper surprising. I guess I am surprised by the upper limit on the topic. Interesting how “planner” videos seem to be hotter but I feel like this is all a similar concept

@@sofiawren So a few things: - the number of videos on the topic has been steadily increasing over the course of the last year (since I gathered all the thumbnails) so it should be well over 500 videos now - a few of the newer videos have exploded and gotten above 100k quite easily within a month - the number of videos above 10k might be double now - it seems that people who make the high view videos on the subject have at least one of the following: high level degree, autism, high sensitivity, perfectionism, split focus, etc - aka a list of how to struggle to churn out videos on the same topic every week - so it might be that the videos can do way better but the people burn out, have more profitable projects, or need to be in a specific mental state of solitude, low stimulation, or introspection in order to make the videos - and getting over 100k views in under a month probably wrecks that for at least a month xD - it's possible that there was substantial human error in the image acquisition process - although I think errors later on would have been more likely and below 1% - so maybe 5 errors max - I think I used quotation marks in the search as the majority of things which popped up were unrelated - meaning the upper limit is likely higher if slightly unrelated - this is the type of video which should should probably be more of a conversation starter that leads people in the right direction rather than absolute fact for all time lol - when it comes to why people watch... it seems there are a few reasons as to why but if people are looking for "commonplace book" specifically they probably want the ideas rather than buying a product - as opposed to other things like "planner" which should have the possibility of being loaded with ways to monetize the channel - so I think it's partially how people search but also people not wanting to be like - What's up UA-cam! Here's the contents of my diary! - one reason and thus a lower view count

@@thepostgradyear got you! I think it is parks notes that has a new substack out now. I do think common place is becoming a hot topic and now more videos are circulating in the algorithm to those who have been interested even very old ones. It definitely overlaps with the second brain and Pkm crowd although like I said still bemused the planner girl people seem to be on some other track, more product based or todo list oriented I guess.

@@sofiawren btw there are a lot of things I kept out of my "so a few things reply" but that's basically an entire videos worth of "omg btw I forgot about this other thing" idk if I mentioned substack but thanks for the info! it would be interesting to check and see how many commonplacing content creators use specific sites to see if there are very clearly some sites which people should check out or that are utterly void and would allow someone to make their own niche as THE person on that platform yeah the planner people thing was incomprehensible to me until I realized how many people grew up going to school with a planner and feel like their value comes from their ability to be productive - of course by realizing I might be that type of person sometimes haha I think commonplacing is fairly evergreen so watching old videos makes sense; but, I've been having a good time showing up on videos that came out yesterday and being like omggggg hiiiii 😂

omg thanks haha real videos start next week!

thanks for commenting!!

sweet and spicy xD

omg what are you doing here haha I've very happy you're here! But I'm feeling quite starstruck. btw the way - oh no I need to fix that lol No social media links! It should feel a lot more personal but... it's less of a design choice and mostly just my near complete lack of social media. However, the structure of my description is intentionally set up to be like a live reaction. It's a bit uncomfortable for me to see some of the earlier videos I made (like this one). Which might sound rather strange because it came out a few days ago. But I made this many months ago; so I could give myself a year of wiggle room in case something came up (and something did for 5 months). I'm planning on making more videos like this one, but done in a way that clearly shows some prep, rather than just saying whatever comes to mind as I look at the page. I already have a backlog of over 100 notes so I think I'll focus on turning the first 100 into 10 videos after I finish my next project. Videos like this one will be coming out for the rest of the year (with a surprise at the end)! But the 10 videos will probably wait until around April 2025 unless I decide not to do them or break the chronology. Thank you so much for the encouragement! Your comment gave me another month of motivation!

basically instead of making one video I made a few less connected and somewhat incomprehensible clips lol basically this channel is currently focused on writing down random things on pages and organizing them in a binder which slowly turns into something useful the main point of the binder is to serve as a commonplace book within a theoretical future education system I came up with over the last decade but haven't had any luck communicating effectively so as I've been struggling explaining the entire thing with its many moving parts I decided to pick one of the many moving parts and hyper focus on that before finishing it and using it to explain all the other branches the first thing I've been using the binder for is documenting my process of creating the channel as the channel kinda sucks right now and I need to create methodologies and process for actually making it happen so this video is focusing on converting some information from other pages into something more useful - or at least reporting back to everyone what happened - but it's a mess there was a little rant explanation about how I said something slightly inaccurate in the past and I wanted to correct that tbh I'm really surprised you found this video lol so I'm aware of MBTI (mostly related to the 16 personalities test) and yeah I normally got assigned INFJ although that only happened about half the time I've heard some people from North Africa and East Asia talk about it but for me it mostly died in 2010 - 2012 also I want to fix up this comment but I logged on to schedule 5 videos so just know I'll get back to you if you reply with the @ haha

that's true! but I've found I prefer the act of relabeling the contents page with the most recent thing going in the back of the binder, and the pages only being numbered as an afterthought or if working on something quite intensely. I can't remember why I started doing it this way but I think I had a problem in 2015 or 16 with too many placeholder pages. who knows!

@@thepostgradyear true, inserted pages tend to run out of room mid-topic, which results in a kind of hopscotch through the binder.

@@denisewenke8323 tbh I feel like this video is sort of a hopscotch through the binder LOL I think most people will find your comment useful! thanks for the perspective!

thanks! if you want it to be even more interesting you can use both haha they both have some great benefits and things which are uh... a bit inconvenient with a book the information sure is in there! so you won't lose it! but it's also stuck with a binder you can move everything around and do unusual things like grab everything of one category and move it into a second binder and look at that you have a binder on a specific subject! but there is also the risk of being at a bus stop in the middle of a storm, and accidentally opening up the binder - resulting in days of work ending up a part of nature lol

@@thepostgradyear hahaha. i’m actually clumsy with paper so that could totally happen to me

it's a lot more time consuming, but it might be better to wander around with something like field notes or audio recordings on your phone, transfer everything into a book once arriving at home, and potentially take a picture of every page or a quick 15 minute page through (and video recording) once a year in case everything gets lost or destroyed if you do this on paper I suggest a double x through whatever you transferred - to make sure that you know you already went through it and can potentially still read it later if you want to - otherwise you might get home and have no idea what you worked on haha - btw you might find two x placed on top of each other to look a lot nicer and be easier to make than somehow perfectly eyeballing the middle of the each page I've heard that a simple two lines at the edge of the page is enough for some people but I don't think it would work for me unless they were very brightly colored but that might be too overstimulating so idk I felt weird leaving your reply alone for so long but I didn't want to be like: dang you're clumsy? that's tragic LOL anyways a binder system in a home makes sense but travelling with one seems risky although some people might see this and say something like hey you know zettelkasten is real right?

@@thepostgradyear no issues with the late reply, i’m myself terrible at replying to people. so, i had binders for notes when i was in college and it was convenient to carry because we all had backpacks. now notebooks work best for me but i have to say i like the messy aesthetic of a binder. also, what do you commonplace about?

@@abcdefghijklm000 What do I Commonplace About? (great title idea lol) It's changed over time. I grew up with a hoarder who wouldn't let me get rid of any of my old schoolwork. So I convinced that person to let me convert it into something more useful and concentrated. It later focused on truth as I was surrounded by liars lol. Focusing on truth made it obvious I needed to try many methods, record the results, replicate them through additional methods, and make sure no progress was lost. Focusing on truth was risky as if other people I lived with found out I could have ended up homeless. So I made sure to make way more stuff than was actually useful. By writing random things about Minecraft for example and making it seem like I wanted to be a game designer but also being really bad at it I could stop people from stealing my books or reviewing them. It was way better to look like I was incompetent than a potential threat. That's part of the reason why the first videos on the channel look like this. But don't worry because I broke out of the habit several scheduled videos from now. The core thing I've commonplaced about is the future education. Education is the original core of the binders. It's a fairly consistent and easy jump to make from past to present and then to future. I simply look at what was, what is, and what will be. So it looks like a full spectrum of ideas, but that's because of all the things which came before. In some ways it is, but really it's a bunch of old projects being converted into a newer more relevant part of the school project. An easier way to think about the sections is as if they are myths. Stories told in multiple places in multiple ways but all on similar topics and all connected around the core ideas. In October of 2020 I lost access to printing and since then I've been focused on my digital version: a personal knowledge base. But this channel will demonstrate creating a commonplace binder and then use it to talk about education.

Glad you like it! In the future it might even have something in it haha

Hello! It feels like I'm trying for the commonplace guy spot haha

Thanks! I think I'll need to skim through your "Research Papers" playlist to remind myself of some other methods!

Thank you! This comment helped me a lot!