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📓 I use an old-school hardcover dictionary. One of the things I love about it is that when I look up a word, there are all these other words near it on the same page or the next page. I often get lost just looking at some of the nearby words. I hope that print dictionaries never disappear, for this reason alone.
This idea is beautiful. As a non native english speaker I always had a word note book but I never added etymology, only if I knew earlier, vocabulary would be so easy and meaningful to me.
📓 Kleptoparasitism has been my favorite word since I was a teenager and I still tell my friends "that was really kleptoparasitic of you..." When they steal a french fry or something before I've had a chance offer them any. Kleptoparasitism Definition noun A form of parasitism wherein an animal takes food or objects collected, caught, prepared, or stored by another animal
📓 I used to keep a notebook I called my Word Horde but in recent years I’ve dropped off. I recently noticed that my vocabulary has suffered from this. Thanks for the reminder
As a quick aside: cahier is just French for notebook, as in the notebook yo carry to school. And comes from the Latin quateni, which means "in groups of four".
Yes, we use an old school dictionary too. It goes back to my school days where we were encouraged to find a new word everyday. I was always impressed as a 12 year old by ‘symbiotic’! 📚
i definitely want to do this. i’m in high school, read a lot, etc and seeing words i don’t know makes me so anxious. i look up the meaning of random words all the time, and this seems like a good way to keep track of them.
I have been doing this for a while and have a nice dictionary built up. To make sure I can find words I use a Filofax so I can move sheets around. I group them by the first letter of the word, so they are not in true alphabetical order, but just by their first letter.
Magnanimous. Great spirit: The etymology is something I wouldn’t have done but seeing the fascinating break down seems to make the definition easier to remember. I’m going to start this practice. Thank you! 📓
When i do my writings (bullet journalling , commonplace book, daily scribblings etc) , if i read or hear a new word ( that i don't understand ) I would put an '*' above or behind it ... In the right margin , I would rewrite the word & '*' , with the dictionary page in the back of the book section called "Dictionary" Going to the Back section of the book and the Numbered page i scribed, where the Dictionary section is located .. I would write the Word in bold letters and beneath , i would write : a) page number in journal where it is located b) date of being introduced to this new word c) Definition of the Word d) 2 x Synonyms of the word (similar words / a word that has the same meaning as another word / or nearly the same meaning) e) 2 Example sentences , where i can use this word in my day or other situations. f) side note : any info on the word's origin, LATIN / GREEK/ location or slang usage etc. ************************************************************** What I am working on , is creating another system : I write a long explanation or description of something, and don't have a simple "word" to use. So I want to make a system that would do this in my Writing books.. I don't know what this is called Example : "This Person or Group of People are only focused on the negative areas, of their lives and others lives" = _what is a word to define / describe this_ ?? 1) *Negativity Bias* groups = causes people to focus on one bad thing in a mountain of good things. 2) *Negative Effect* = People are inclined to internalize negative experiences more deeply, causing us to worry and dwell on small things. For example, we may obsess over a comment we made at a party and later regret or focus on the fact that someone cut in line in front of us. This is a work in progress , for my explanding knowlege path. I would love to see a video , where _Mr Park Notes_ does something similar?
@@earmit007 It has taken a little practice , to keep this updated ..but the practice of it , has improved my English , in my daily life. Good luck and have fun .
As a non english speaker I’ve kept a personal dictionary for years! I read both in Spanish and English, so when I find a word on either language that I’m unfamiliar with, I look up it’s definition, then I translate it. Now I’m going to start adding the etymology of the word! So fun and interesting. Thank you so much for this idea! 💚 PS- I studied Latin in high school (nothing fancy and by no means I’m fluent) and my favorite random fact to tell people that apiculture (beekeeping in simpler words) comes from the Latin word “apis”, which means bee!
I have a personal dictionary that I started sometime ago, and with your idea I can kick it up a notch by including the etymology as well as including the passage I found the word in. Also I can use all those notebooks I’ve purchased that I’m apprehensive to use because I fear making a mistake with them. This is exactly why I follow you, you take thinking up to the next level. Bravo! 👏
That's so funny, I learned "prestidigitation" when I was five because they said it in a Cabbage Patch Kids movie in the 90s. I occasionally like to look up the etymology of words, but I now intend to start a notebook like this and do it more often. I'm endeavoring to expand my vocabulary so as to have more ways to express myself, especially as a poetry lover. This is exciting to me and seems like a lot of fun. I really enjoyed learning the etymology of "trivial." 📓
Amazing video, thank you. "Your thoughts are limited by the words you know". Heard about the importance of the words thanks to Italian philosopher Umberto Galimberti and others, he also underlines that languages like ancient greek and german are the richest ones: hat's why great thinkers are German and Greek. 🤔
WOO! this is amazing. ❤ as a logophile (word lover) this approach is the most practical ive seen on yt. I use a digital journal to document words but this approach is more elaborate and fun. I especially love how you break down the words, it makes everything make a thousand times more sense. Definitely going to implement these practices for my future entries. English is such an incredibly nuanced and vast language with words for almost any situation or occasion.
Thanks to you I was able to overhaul my way of writing and thinking. I am currently in the 5th year of high school and I study in the field of mechanics and mechatronics, however I have always dedicated myself to writing and reading: until 2 years ago I wrote purely fantasy stories, until I read "The Myth of Sisphus" by Albert Camus and "No longer Human" by Osamu Dazai (Shuji Tsushima). Since then I began to dedicate myself to philosophy and writing books/mologues, succeeding in the creation of "Joon-Won's Dilemmas" (112 pages, A5 format) and "The Painter and the Sculptor" (94 pages, A5 format) . Now rereading them, after having watched some of your videos, I realized many aspects that could be modified. Thank you for all the effort you put into your videos. Continue posting, please.
Love your videos. Particularly how you share your intelligence without an ounce of pretentiousness. One could say you’re magnanimous in terms of generosity! Just signed up to Skillshare - thank you! 📒
Awesome! Skillshare is insane. So many cool courses. I was so stoked when they wanted to sponsor me because I've loved them for a while. Thanks for the compliment, not sure how to accept it and refrain from being pretentious hahah 😅
I just found your channel and it's filled with motivating and valuable content. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, trying to help us be more cultured, and improve our learning and reading habits.
That's an excellent idea Parker. In philosophy there are abundant examples of new words and concepts being introduced, kicking and screaming into our lexicon. Your idea for a specific notebook is one that I will certainly adopt...just extending your idea to include concepts....my first word/concept will be Nietzsche's ressentiment. Thanks again for this brilliant idea.
@ParkerNotes To show my total agreement with your initiative, I have ordered a couple of A5 index notebooks so that my entries are in alphabetical order. I think that might give some order to it. I am also employing a similar process for recording short quotes from papers/books that are to be used for a specific academic project.
I have a google doc titled 'word hoard' where all i do is write down new words i come across and i've been wanting to transfer it to paper. i didn't really have an idea of how to do it and i didn't want to only include their definitions, that seems like such a disservice to each word. i'm gonna use this video as a guideline to repurpose one of the many notebooks i have sitting around and start my own book of words. thanks Parker! here's a word i recently learned: ineluctable: unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable.: "the ineluctable facts of history".📓
I've always tracked words and looked them up, but I never considered a personal dictionary! Great 📓 idea! Love the way the history enlightens the mind!
📓 I started doing this in the margins in books I would read when I would come across words I wasn’t familiar with or wanted to use more often, but it would be way more helpful to have it in a notebook to refer back to instead! Thanks for the content Park!
Your channel is one of my favorites, I really appreciate all the passion that you put in every video. God bless you and thank you for share your knowledge and tips
This is really neat to see this topic covered! I started off on keeping notebooks, and by extension finding your videos, because I was learning German and keeping a German dictionary, which grey to a German practice book where I'd write full sentences and more, and eventually a journal in it. I didn't include the German etymology though now that my language skill has improved it would be fun to do that with words going forward. I did however start including drawings into both the dictionary and journal to help me remember the words. I'm just starting to learn how to draw better so its a good way to practice both skills, and I wind up making associations between what I'm writing with things about the process of drawing the related images. Interestingly I did just start a bit of an English language dictionary, but it is for my Political Theory notebook, in which I have a quick accessible definition, but I've also been using it as a place to park ideas I want to explore more, as often it is something that goes much deeper like the concept of "irreducible minimum" or "Enshittification"
Indeed! While we're a lot of the time very wary of using 'long words' - sometimes you can use 'the perfect word', which many would typically not know, or may just have a distant inkling of - but by seeing it used, they learn it (from context), love it - & heck, start to use it themselves! And thereby your wish sir that good words can remain in our lexicon - can be fulfilled. Examples might be: 'She looked really gaunt' Or: 'The tax authority's behaviour went from the usual uncompromising - to downright obstreperous'.
📓📓📓 considering the general public's lack of affinity for grammar, rhetoric, and logic (at least where I am in the US), it does not surprise me that "trivial" came to mean something of little value. It does, however, break my heart and in some ways enrage me at the same time. My most hated phrase is "that's just semantics." Yes. Exactly. Semantics are crucial because that's how we understand what each other is saying. People love to devalue what they don't understand or don't want to do in order to justify their disinterest in putting forth the effort. If you've never looked into the origins of the word "terrific," you're in for a treat, Parker. Thanks for the video and being here to share your knowledge. It always perks me up to see a new one.
Hey, Parker! 🤘 Your video on making a personal dictionary is seriously awesome! 📚 The Notebook Method is genius - gonna start collecting words like a pro now. Love that you're all about real understanding and not just flexing vocab. The tips on finding cool words from books and flashcards are spot-on. Thanks for the inspo, man! +1👍
I tend to either scribble words I hear in a pocket notebook or, if handy, Notion. I guess I’ll need to consolidate these into a single source. This will ensure a deeper understanding of etymology and use of such words. Two favourite words: 1) foible; and 2) opprobrium
I started making some pages dedicated to words/definition lists. I have one for Thoreau and one for Montaigne so far. They are just in my normal notebook. If it becomes habitial enough (or necessary) it may get its own notebook.
👍🏽 🇬🇧 January 2024 I actually also write down pretty 'normal' words in my dictionary, to remind my brain to use them when I'm fumbling for the right word - such as 'persist', or 'discredit', or 'extol'.
Hey Parker, Love your videos and they've been nothing but helpful in improving the quality of my overall lifestyle. I noticed that you're a fellow jiu-jitsu practitioner and would love to see some sort of short video or guide on how you take notes when studying techniques or analyzing rolls. Thank you!
This video motivated me to keep a notebook for new vocabulary again! I think it would actually encourage me to learn the word instead of just storing it.
I've been doing something similar for a few years. My daily planner (hobonichi weeks) has a bunch of plain pages at the end. One of the things I use this is to collect words I come across. I usually just write the date I first saw the word, the word, and the definition from Oxford. If its more complex I might read a Wikipedia page and write a bit about that.
Interesting concept Parker, I'll have to ruminate further about the possible implementation of this notebook. Another author I would recommend is Anthony Burgess, he's the most creative writer I've ever come across in terms of diction.
Awesome video! I’d love to see your preferred carrying method for your journals and notebooks. Do different books travel with you at different times? Do any of them stay on your personal virtually 24/7? Love this channel
I keep a small journal and I make a page for new words. So, when I come across a new word in a book or game, I know what it is and what it means. Thanks for the vid.
Yes man! This is EXACTLY something I've needed. I've been writing poetry for a long time, but recently decided to write at least one a day. I feel a little frustrated when I use the same words over and over again, because sometimes the subtlety of a concept is not quite as accurate and because I'm so into etymology, I always want that aspect of how I construct my writing to be at least one more layers of meaning and poignancy. Anyway, thanks again for another enriching video. I really do appreciate it.
This is awesome! I do this so I don't overuse words as well, but for my philosophy writings. Great to hear it'll serve you in poetry as well! Feel free to drop a substack link or something if you publish your poetry publicly
Hey! I’m studying french and I use daily a Moleskine Cahier and I also thought “cahier” was a weird word. Turns out it means notebook in french hahaha. Love your channel btw.
📓I have a reading journal where I write definitions from my books. I never thought about writing out a particular sentence from my book with that word to get the context. My favorite word is Ablution I’m a nurse so I like the alternative word for handwashing 😂😂
Magnanimous is a perfect word for the Frodo we meet in The Scouring of the Shire. Even Saruman, after his life is once again spared by Frodo after an attempt on his life, declares "You have grown, Halfling.... You are wise...." If Saruman had know the word, he would have described Frodo as magnanimous lol.
📓thank you! I started noting words I didn’t know in books I like to look up later and so when I saw this video it caught my eye! I just purchased a notebook that would be perfect for this, and now I know how I’m going to use it. You’re awesome!
Hi! I just found your channel and the word that popped in my mind while watching this video: “intellection”. You strike me as someone with intellection as one of their strengths (under the StrengthsFinder 2.0 test). I love chewing on ideas too. Analog system 🎉
Sweet!! If at all it aligns with your content plan, it would be lovely to see a "Why" or "About Me" video detailing this link between your love for analog systems and your personality/strengths. Reasons: 1. Many in this digital age prefer platforms other than physical note-taking and struggle to understand the allure of analog systems. 2. Not everyone understands what it means to "chew on ideas". (P.S. I'm a #1 intellection and #5 input so I get it!) and it'll be such a wonderful idea to share this, for the twin purposes of awareness and sharing insights. Humans make sense of the world through boxes/labels/schemas and sharing these personality traits/strengths helps them gain better appreciation for the art and science of physical note-taking :)) @@ParkerNotes
Hi again Parker, I've just thought, following on from my earlier post, why not use a simple index book so that the new words/concepts can be organised in alphabetical order. Just a thought. Thanks again for prompting me into action.
This is very intriguing. I like having a larger vocabulary, but I've never thought of creating a personal dictionary. From my experience the word "Cahier" is pronounced like John McClane's favourite phrase, if you leave off the "Yippie" part. I believe that it is just the French (or French Canadian) word for notebook.
I've seen many of your videos and you talk about/show many notebooks so it is hard to tell what you could be actively using at one time How many notebooks are you keeping right now? How many pocket notebooks do you have going at one time, how do you discern which ones to bring about with you? Also from someone who speaks French, cahier is a French word pronounced kai-eh, and the s is not pronounced (I think it is much easier to say than the way you're currently pronouncing it and it might help you like the word more haha). It means notebook, it's a word we often use in school to mean notebook, so I at least think of it more in that sense rather than like a diary or journal.
Thanks for the pronunciation!! I have a lot of pocket notebooks going. I have like 4 staple ones though. My most uses is my Leuctturm1917 idea catch all then my Field notes general catch-all. Then my pocket proverbs commonplace book, then my contemplatio. If I were guiding someone I'd say have a general catch-all and a pocket commonplace book
I’ve been doing this over the past year and it’s super fun and interesting. But I have a problem! The words aren’t alphabetized. Any ideas on how to work around that?
Thank you for making this video. This system seems cool and I will get started with it right away. I was wondering where you find the etymology of the words as I am unable to find them as clearly as you have written in the notebook in this video.
Greetings and Salutations I understand this loads I use the new word "Cousin'tid" many times "Tid(ye)" favorite birthday word to include & with terms and conditions Great upload Thanks 😊
I always thought those notebooks were ‘cashier’ notebooks, like perhaps where tellers would keep their transaction entries 😅 Fun fact (that I know now after this video): saying cahier notebook might be redundant, in the same sense that saying chai tea might redundant
Apposite: adj. Suitable, appropiate: "an apposite quotation" I thought it was interesting that the pronunciation sounds very similar to opposite and it means something completely different.
📔Great idea for a personal notebook that I'll have to incorporate into my collection. Quick question though: where do you find the definitions? In resent years, several of the major online dictonaries have either removed or altered definitions to fit into a more "politically correct" or "woke" frame of mind, which is something that I want to avoid when it comes to dictonaries.
I always check a couple definitions. Even the ones that have been changed should have the older definitions as well. And I don't think they'll change the etymologies
One of the discussions I’ve enjoyed having is that there is not a being intelligent enough to comprehend what a god actually is. We have a simple anthropomorphic generalization, but I believe that doesn’t even scratch the surface. With that said, I’m not atheist. I am spiritual in the sense that inorganic material has a form of “life” that we don’t understand, and that universal interaction goes beyond current comprehension.
I go through seasons with these different notebooks. I like showing what could be new ideas to people but I don't use all my notebook systems in a given day. Maybe I'll make a vid on what I use when. Thanks for the idea!
By the way, Cahier, comes from the French, it reads Kaye (with the e read like in "tend") it just means notebook I french, anyway that's for the video it's gonna help me a lot with my English studies
I have been jotting down the words and their definitions in the last few pages of my journal which is essentially the only book I carry around. I realised that I am not reviewing them as often as I'd like and tried carrying a smaller pocket notebook, with the intention to create a dictionary like yours. Despite so, it still isn't as convenient a system for me. How do you deal with moments when you come across a new word, excited to learn more about it and then realizing your notebook is not with you at the moment? This has been frustrating for me to say the least.
I know this feeling well. This is why I always bring some sort of pocket notebook with me as a catch-all. I can put the words in there and add them to the personal dictionary later
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I use an old-school hardcover dictionary. One of the things I love about it is that when I look up a word, there are all these other words near it on the same page or the next page. I often get lost just looking at some of the nearby words. I hope that print dictionaries never disappear, for this reason alone.
100%!!
As a kid I used to read the dictionary when I was bored. This reminded me I need to start doing this with my grandkids.
This idea is beautiful. As a non native english speaker I always had a word note book but I never added etymology, only if I knew earlier, vocabulary would be so easy and meaningful to me.
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Kleptoparasitism has been my favorite word since I was a teenager and I still tell my friends "that was really kleptoparasitic of you..." When they steal a french fry or something before I've had a chance offer them any.
Kleptoparasitism
Definition
noun
A form of parasitism wherein an animal takes food or objects collected, caught, prepared, or stored by another animal
That's a new one for me! Thank you!!
Me: How many 📓 do you have?
ParkNotes: Yes
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Well, Park 'NOTES' , haha
Hahaha same here!
📓 I used to keep a notebook I called my Word Horde but in recent years I’ve dropped off. I recently noticed that my vocabulary has suffered from this. Thanks for the reminder
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As a quick aside: cahier is just French for notebook, as in the notebook yo carry to school. And comes from the Latin quateni, which means "in groups of four".
Woahhhhhh!!! Okay this is gold. Thank you! I should have looked it up beforehand
Yes, we use an old school dictionary too. It goes back to my school days where we were encouraged to find a new word everyday. I was always impressed as a 12 year old by ‘symbiotic’! 📚
I learned symbiotic from the 90s Spiderman cartoon. I always loved it🙌
I have a word that the whole world has to know, understand and live in 2024 , in all directions of time... 'Magnanimous' ! Wow! Epic vid @paker ! 👏🏽
Thank you!
Currently reading Dostoevsky and that was a word I had to search up the meaning of lol
Reminds me of a quote from Tim Collins. "If you are ferocious in battle, remember to be magnanimous in victory,"
i thought it was a common word, at least in latin languages
i definitely want to do this. i’m in high school, read a lot, etc and seeing words i don’t know makes me so anxious. i look up the meaning of random words all the time, and this seems like a good way to keep track of them.
That's awesome. Wish I woulda started these practices when I was in highschool
I have been doing this for a while and have a nice dictionary built up. To make sure I can find words I use a Filofax so I can move sheets around. I group them by the first letter of the word, so they are not in true alphabetical order, but just by their first letter.
I like this! I'll have to check it out
Magnanimous. Great spirit: The etymology is something I wouldn’t have done but seeing the fascinating break down seems to make the definition easier to remember. I’m going to start this practice. Thank you! 📓
🫡 Yeah finding etymologies always helps me remember the definition. So helpful.
When i do my writings (bullet journalling , commonplace book, daily scribblings etc) , if i read or hear a new word ( that i don't understand ) I would put an '*' above or behind it ...
In the right margin , I would rewrite the word & '*' , with the dictionary page in the back of the book section called "Dictionary"
Going to the Back section of the book and the Numbered page i scribed, where the Dictionary section is located ..
I would write the Word in bold letters and beneath , i would write :
a) page number in journal where it is located
b) date of being introduced to this new word
c) Definition of the Word
d) 2 x Synonyms of the word (similar words / a word that has the same meaning as another word / or nearly the same meaning)
e) 2 Example sentences , where i can use this word in my day or other situations.
f) side note : any info on the word's origin, LATIN / GREEK/ location or slang usage etc.
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What I am working on , is creating another system :
I write a long explanation or description of something, and don't have a simple "word" to use.
So I want to make a system that would do this in my Writing books..
I don't know what this is called
Example : "This Person or Group of People are only focused on the negative areas, of their lives and others lives" = _what is a word to define / describe this_ ??
1) *Negativity Bias* groups = causes people to focus on one bad thing in a mountain of good things.
2) *Negative Effect* = People are inclined to internalize negative experiences more deeply, causing us to worry and dwell on small things. For example, we may obsess over a comment we made at a party and later regret or focus on the fact that someone cut in line in front of us.
This is a work in progress , for my explanding knowlege path.
I would love to see a video , where _Mr Park Notes_ does something similar?
This is so awesome!! Thanks for sharing this, I know a bunch of people will benefit from it
Thank you for sharing, I might have to add this to my system as well!
@@earmit007 It has taken a little practice , to keep this updated ..but the practice of it , has improved my English , in my daily life.
Good luck and have fun .
As a non english speaker I’ve kept a personal dictionary for years! I read both in Spanish and English, so when I find a word on either language that I’m unfamiliar with, I look up it’s definition, then I translate it. Now I’m going to start adding the etymology of the word! So fun and interesting. Thank you so much for this idea! 💚
PS- I studied Latin in high school (nothing fancy and by no means I’m fluent) and my favorite random fact to tell people that apiculture (beekeeping in simpler words) comes from the Latin word “apis”, which means bee!
I have a personal dictionary that I started sometime ago, and with your idea I can kick it up a notch by including the etymology as well as including the passage I found the word in. Also I can use all those notebooks I’ve purchased that I’m apprehensive to use because I fear making a mistake with them. This is exactly why I follow you, you take thinking up to the next level. Bravo! 👏
Let's go!! I'm so pumped by this!!
That's so funny, I learned "prestidigitation" when I was five because they said it in a Cabbage Patch Kids movie in the 90s. I occasionally like to look up the etymology of words, but I now intend to start a notebook like this and do it more often. I'm endeavoring to expand my vocabulary so as to have more ways to express myself, especially as a poetry lover. This is exciting to me and seems like a lot of fun. I really enjoyed learning the etymology of "trivial." 📓
Thank younl for this thoughtful comment! So glad you liked the part about "trivial" I almost cut it. Glad I didn't now.
Amazing video, thank you. "Your thoughts are limited by the words you know". Heard about the importance of the words thanks to Italian philosopher Umberto Galimberti and others, he also underlines that languages like ancient greek and german are the richest ones: hat's why great thinkers are German and Greek. 🤔
🙌 great quote!
WOO! this is amazing. ❤
as a logophile (word lover) this approach is the most practical ive seen on yt. I use a digital journal to document words but this approach is more elaborate and fun.
I especially love how you break down the words, it makes everything make a thousand times more sense.
Definitely going to implement these practices for my future entries.
English is such an incredibly nuanced and vast language with words for almost any situation or occasion.
This is awesome!! Always good to see a kindred soul!
Thanks to you I was able to overhaul my way of writing and thinking.
I am currently in the 5th year of high school and I study in the field of mechanics and mechatronics, however I have always dedicated myself to writing and reading: until 2 years ago I wrote purely fantasy stories, until I read "The Myth of Sisphus" by Albert Camus and "No longer Human" by Osamu Dazai (Shuji Tsushima). Since then I began to dedicate myself to philosophy and writing books/mologues, succeeding in the creation of "Joon-Won's Dilemmas" (112 pages, A5 format) and "The Painter and the Sculptor" (94 pages, A5 format) .
Now rereading them, after having watched some of your videos, I realized many aspects that could be modified.
Thank you for all the effort you put into your videos. Continue posting, please.
I love this!! Great work and thanks for the encouragement
Love your videos. Particularly how you share your intelligence without an ounce of pretentiousness. One could say you’re magnanimous in terms of generosity! Just signed up to Skillshare - thank you! 📒
Awesome! Skillshare is insane. So many cool courses. I was so stoked when they wanted to sponsor me because I've loved them for a while. Thanks for the compliment, not sure how to accept it and refrain from being pretentious hahah 😅
I just found your channel and it's filled with motivating and valuable content. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, trying to help us be more cultured, and improve our learning and reading habits.
Thank you! So glad you recognize what I'm up to!
That's an excellent idea Parker. In philosophy there are abundant examples of new words and concepts being introduced, kicking and screaming into our lexicon. Your idea for a specific notebook is one that I will certainly adopt...just extending your idea to include concepts....my first word/concept will be Nietzsche's ressentiment. Thanks again for this brilliant idea.
Yeah including concepts could be really beneficial! Thanks Doc!
@ParkerNotes To show my total agreement with your initiative, I have ordered a couple of A5 index notebooks so that my entries are in alphabetical order. I think that might give some order to it. I am also employing a similar process for recording short quotes from papers/books that are to be used for a specific academic project.
@ParkerNotes Also, I have ordered the same pen that you recommended...who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
I have a google doc titled 'word hoard' where all i do is write down new words i come across and i've been wanting to transfer it to paper. i didn't really have an idea of how to do it and i didn't want to only include their definitions, that seems like such a disservice to each word. i'm gonna use this video as a guideline to repurpose one of the many notebooks i have sitting around and start my own book of words. thanks Parker! here's a word i recently learned: ineluctable: unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable.: "the ineluctable facts of history".📓
Thanks for the word!! And this insightful comment 🤝
I've always tracked words and looked them up, but I never considered a personal dictionary! Great 📓 idea! Love the way the history enlightens the mind!
So glad you like it!
📓 I started doing this in the margins in books I would read when I would come across words I wasn’t familiar with or wanted to use more often, but it would be way more helpful to have it in a notebook to refer back to instead! Thanks for the content Park!
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first time I've ever purchased something a youtuber told me to, congrats you handsome being
Haha I'm honored!
Thanks for the month of skillshare! Also great video!
🙌 my pleasure!
📚 I think this is the right video to start my year with.
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Your channel is one of my favorites, I really appreciate all the passion that you put in every video.
God bless you and thank you for share your knowledge and tips
Thank you! God bless you too!
This is really neat to see this topic covered! I started off on keeping notebooks, and by extension finding your videos, because I was learning German and keeping a German dictionary, which grey to a German practice book where I'd write full sentences and more, and eventually a journal in it. I didn't include the German etymology though now that my language skill has improved it would be fun to do that with words going forward. I did however start including drawings into both the dictionary and journal to help me remember the words. I'm just starting to learn how to draw better so its a good way to practice both skills, and I wind up making associations between what I'm writing with things about the process of drawing the related images. Interestingly I did just start a bit of an English language dictionary, but it is for my Political Theory notebook, in which I have a quick accessible definition, but I've also been using it as a place to park ideas I want to explore more, as often it is something that goes much deeper like the concept of "irreducible minimum" or "Enshittification"
This is awesome! Thank you!
Indeed!
While we're a lot of the time very wary of using 'long words' - sometimes you can use 'the perfect word', which many would typically not know, or may just have a distant inkling of - but by seeing it used, they learn it (from context), love it - & heck, start to use it themselves!
And thereby your wish sir that good words can remain in our lexicon - can be fulfilled.
Examples might be:
'She looked really gaunt'
Or:
'The tax authority's behaviour went from the usual uncompromising - to downright obstreperous'.
Both are fantastic words!! My dad always says guant lol
📓📓📓 considering the general public's lack of affinity for grammar, rhetoric, and logic (at least where I am in the US), it does not surprise me that "trivial" came to mean something of little value. It does, however, break my heart and in some ways enrage me at the same time.
My most hated phrase is "that's just semantics."
Yes. Exactly. Semantics are crucial because that's how we understand what each other is saying.
People love to devalue what they don't understand or don't want to do in order to justify their disinterest in putting forth the effort.
If you've never looked into the origins of the word "terrific," you're in for a treat, Parker.
Thanks for the video and being here to share your knowledge. It always perks me up to see a new one.
This is such a great comment! I think you're spot on!
And lol to terrific, thanks for that!
Hey, Parker! 🤘 Your video on making a personal dictionary is seriously awesome! 📚 The Notebook Method is genius - gonna start collecting words like a pro now. Love that you're all about real understanding and not just flexing vocab. The tips on finding cool words from books and flashcards are spot-on. Thanks for the inspo, man! +1👍
So glad you liked it!!
I tend to either scribble words I hear in a pocket notebook or, if handy, Notion. I guess I’ll need to consolidate these into a single source. This will ensure a deeper understanding of etymology and use of such words.
Two favourite words: 1) foible; and 2) opprobrium
🙌 thanks for these!
Parker's etymology corner. Love it!
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I started making some pages dedicated to words/definition lists. I have one for Thoreau and one for Montaigne so far.
They are just in my normal notebook. If it becomes habitial enough (or necessary) it may get its own notebook.
Seems like a great way to go about it!
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I actually also write down pretty 'normal' words in my dictionary, to remind my brain to use them when I'm fumbling for the right word - such as 'persist', or 'discredit', or 'extol'.
Yes totally!
Hey Parker, Love your videos and they've been nothing but helpful in improving the quality of my overall lifestyle. I noticed that you're a fellow jiu-jitsu practitioner and would love to see some sort of short video or guide on how you take notes when studying techniques or analyzing rolls. Thank you!
Thanks so much! Yeah I'll try and put one together
This video motivated me to keep a notebook for new vocabulary again! I think it would actually encourage me to learn the word instead of just storing it.
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This was good, thanks for sharing. It helped me out a lot... on figuring out what i would want in my own personal dictionary.📓
This is awesome. So glad to help!
Learning Latin, I tend to hoard words now since I find it interesting where they came from.
Yes! I'm totally with you!
I've been doing something similar for a few years. My daily planner (hobonichi weeks) has a bunch of plain pages at the end. One of the things I use this is to collect words I come across. I usually just write the date I first saw the word, the word, and the definition from Oxford. If its more complex I might read a Wikipedia page and write a bit about that.
This is great! Thank you!
Interesting concept Parker, I'll have to ruminate further about the possible implementation of this notebook. Another author I would recommend is Anthony Burgess, he's the most creative writer I've ever come across in terms of diction.
Awesome! Thanks, I'll check him out!
Awesome video! I’d love to see your preferred carrying method for your journals and notebooks. Do different books travel with you at different times? Do any of them stay on your personal virtually 24/7?
Love this channel
Thanks so much. I'm going to screenshot this and think about doing a video on it
I keep a small journal and I make a page for new words. So, when I come across a new word in a book or game, I know what it is and what it means. Thanks for the vid.
Nice!
I’ve been appreciating your videos 📝
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Yes man! This is EXACTLY something I've needed. I've been writing poetry for a long time, but recently decided to write at least one a day. I feel a little frustrated when I use the same words over and over again, because sometimes the subtlety of a concept is not quite as accurate and because I'm so into etymology, I always want that aspect of how I construct my writing to be at least one more layers of meaning and poignancy.
Anyway, thanks again for another enriching video. I really do appreciate it.
This is awesome! I do this so I don't overuse words as well, but for my philosophy writings. Great to hear it'll serve you in poetry as well! Feel free to drop a substack link or something if you publish your poetry publicly
@@ParkerNotes I haven't yet, but I plan to publish asap. I've actually never looked into Substack, so maybe I can start there haha.
Hey! I’m studying french and I use daily a Moleskine Cahier and I also thought “cahier” was a weird word. Turns out it means notebook in french hahaha. Love your channel btw.
Hahah people have told me here. I love learning, YT comments have been gold, even if my foibles are so public 😅
📓I have a reading journal where I write definitions from my books. I never thought about writing out a particular sentence from my book with that word to get the context. My favorite word is Ablution I’m a nurse so I like the alternative word for handwashing 😂😂
Haha that's awesome! Thanks!
Thank you for this video! I love the concept 📒
I'm so glad!! Thanks for the comment
Great video and thank you for sharing! Which websites do you use for your dictionarius ?
I pretty much always start with a Google search and then pull the thread from there
Thanks for your reply! 📓
Magnanimous is a perfect word for the Frodo we meet in The Scouring of the Shire. Even Saruman, after his life is once again spared by Frodo after an attempt on his life, declares "You have grown, Halfling.... You are wise...." If Saruman had know the word, he would have described Frodo as magnanimous lol.
Fantastic example!! Tolkien does it again!
📓thank you! I started noting words I didn’t know in books I like to look up later and so when I saw this video it caught my eye! I just purchased a notebook that would be perfect for this, and now I know how I’m going to use it. You’re awesome!
This is so cool to hear! Thanks
This is such a great way to understand more new words! 📖
Thank you!
What a great channel. This is an excellent idea also for language learning! 📓
🙌 thank you!
I use a similar method for other languages 😊
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📒great video. I've had a habit of randomly adding words in my notes, but a dedicated dictionary sounds so much smarter.
Let's go! So glad someone else likes it
This is a great idea man! Great stuff as always.
Thank you!! So glad you liked it
Hi! I just found your channel and the word that popped in my mind while watching this video: “intellection”. You strike me as someone with intellection as one of their strengths (under the StrengthsFinder 2.0 test). I love chewing on ideas too. Analog system 🎉
Ha, yeah it's my third one after input and belief 😅
Sweet!! If at all it aligns with your content plan, it would be lovely to see a "Why" or "About Me" video detailing this link between your love for analog systems and your personality/strengths.
Reasons:
1. Many in this digital age prefer platforms other than physical note-taking and struggle to understand the allure of analog systems.
2. Not everyone understands what it means to "chew on ideas". (P.S. I'm a #1 intellection and #5 input so I get it!) and it'll be such a wonderful idea to share this, for the twin purposes of awareness and sharing insights.
Humans make sense of the world through boxes/labels/schemas and sharing these personality traits/strengths helps them gain better appreciation for the art and science of physical note-taking :))
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Papa Parker Wisdom dropping another banger 📓🔥🔥🔥
😅 let's goo!
Factotum, I do love this word.
And I also love the content.
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📕Dude keep it up! I love your videos! They always give me pause. And, once again, your mustache is immaculate!
Haha thank you!!
Hi again Parker,
I've just thought, following on from my earlier post, why not use a simple index book so that the new words/concepts can be organised in alphabetical order. Just a thought. Thanks again for prompting me into action.
This is very intriguing. I like having a larger vocabulary, but I've never thought of creating a personal dictionary. From my experience the word "Cahier" is pronounced like John McClane's favourite phrase, if you leave off the "Yippie" part. I believe that it is just the French (or French Canadian) word for notebook.
Absolutely love this idea 💚 📓💚
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This is going to help to practice my English even more thank youu
Fantastic!!
great video as always brother 📓
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I will be adding this as a collection to my Bullet Journal #bujo📓🤝
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Congratulations to you and your wife on the birth of your daughter - and thank you for the tips! 📒😊
Thank you so much!! I'm so glad people like you benefit from my tips and habits!
I've seen many of your videos and you talk about/show many notebooks so it is hard to tell what you could be actively using at one time How many notebooks are you keeping right now? How many pocket notebooks do you have going at one time, how do you discern which ones to bring about with you?
Also from someone who speaks French, cahier is a French word pronounced kai-eh, and the s is not pronounced (I think it is much easier to say than the way you're currently pronouncing it and it might help you like the word more haha). It means notebook, it's a word we often use in school to mean notebook, so I at least think of it more in that sense rather than like a diary or journal.
Thanks for the pronunciation!! I have a lot of pocket notebooks going. I have like 4 staple ones though. My most uses is my Leuctturm1917 idea catch all then my Field notes general catch-all. Then my pocket proverbs commonplace book, then my contemplatio. If I were guiding someone I'd say have a general catch-all and a pocket commonplace book
@@ParkerNotes Thank you for the insightful reply! Do you bring multiple with you out of the house at one time ever?
How do you decide which pocket notebooks to carry with you when you leave the house? Also how many non-pocket notebooks are you keeping?@@ParkerNotes
I’ve been doing this over the past year and it’s super fun and interesting. But I have a problem! The words aren’t alphabetized. Any ideas on how to work around that?
Haha I thought you could tell me! 😅
@@ParkerNotes I’m thinking of transcribing them onto index cards to be alphabetized.
I started doing this this year. I'm not big on the etymology as much as I am learning the definition of the word.
📓magnanimous is a beautiful word that’s definitely going in my dictionary
Totally!! Glad you like it too
Thank you for making this video. This system seems cool and I will get started with it right away. I was wondering where you find the etymology of the words as I am unable to find them as clearly as you have written in the notebook in this video.
Just Google the word and etymology, e.g. "cajolery etymology"
Thank you!
Thanks for the vid park
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Another awsome video, I am looking to follow in your process. Thank you once again. 📓
Awesome!! Thanks!
Greetings and Salutations
I understand this loads
I use the new word "Cousin'tid" many times
"Tid(ye)" favorite birthday word to include & with terms and conditions
Great upload Thanks 😊
Awesome video, I’ve always found etymology fascinating. 📓
It's the best! I love seeing your comments man!
Cheers from France and their prestidigitateurs !📓
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I always thought those notebooks were ‘cashier’ notebooks, like perhaps where tellers would keep their transaction entries 😅
Fun fact (that I know now after this video): saying cahier notebook might be redundant, in the same sense that saying chai tea might redundant
Yeah I thought the same till I gave it a second look lol and I feel the same now too
Apposite: adj. Suitable, appropiate: "an apposite quotation" I thought it was interesting that the pronunciation sounds very similar to opposite and it means something completely different.
Great word! Thanks!
📓I am using so many notebooks now because of your channel 😂
Haha I hope it's making your life better and not worse!
📔Will be starting my dictionary.
🙌🙌 let's go!
it's kay-ay like yippee kayay. from French
Thanks!
📔Great idea for a personal notebook that I'll have to incorporate into my collection. Quick question though: where do you find the definitions? In resent years, several of the major online dictonaries have either removed or altered definitions to fit into a more "politically correct" or "woke" frame of mind, which is something that I want to avoid when it comes to dictonaries.
I always check a couple definitions. Even the ones that have been changed should have the older definitions as well. And I don't think they'll change the etymologies
Really enjoy your content!
Thank you! Was nervous that this vid sucked tbh
Other good tools are a thesaurus and an unabridged dictionary. There are some online.
Totally
Thanks! 📔
My pleasure!
One of the discussions I’ve enjoyed having is that there is not a being intelligent enough to comprehend what a god actually is. We have a simple anthropomorphic generalization, but I believe that doesn’t even scratch the surface. With that said, I’m not atheist. I am spiritual in the sense that inorganic material has a form of “life” that we don’t understand, and that universal interaction goes beyond current comprehension.
I started using notebooks because of your videos
I've let my intelligence decrease.
I'm doing everything I can to fix my comprehension.
Let's go! Hope to be a resource for you
I would like to know your system for revising all of this information and keeping it active in your mind.
I go through seasons with these different notebooks. I like showing what could be new ideas to people but I don't use all my notebook systems in a given day. Maybe I'll make a vid on what I use when. Thanks for the idea!
What dictionary is best for searching definitions?
Your dog! So cute
Haha thanks! This one is Anaximander
That's what i was waiting for
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A word that has stuck with me from a young age is contemptuous. Not quite sure as to why it did but it did.
By the way, Cahier, comes from the French, it reads Kaye (with the e read like in "tend") it just means notebook I french, anyway that's for the video it's gonna help me a lot with my English studies
Thanks so much for this!
📓 Great idea for a notebook, Park!
🙌 thank you!
I have been jotting down the words and their definitions in the last few pages of my journal which is essentially the only book I carry around. I realised that I am not reviewing them as often as I'd like and tried carrying a smaller pocket notebook, with the intention to create a dictionary like yours. Despite so, it still isn't as convenient a system for me. How do you deal with moments when you come across a new word, excited to learn more about it and then realizing your notebook is not with you at the moment? This has been frustrating for me to say the least.
I know this feeling well. This is why I always bring some sort of pocket notebook with me as a catch-all. I can put the words in there and add them to the personal dictionary later
m applying it in my life 📓📒
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