I use Joplin, an open source app similar to Evernote. It’s free with unlimited entries, and can be organized into separate “Notebooks” (files). I’ve got a Notebook for Quotes and a Notebook for Illustrations and a Notebook for a book idea I’m working on. I can add multiple Tags to each entry, like “Funny” or “Syncretism” or “Rome.” This makes searching for anecdotes and quotes on a particular topic quite easy. I always document my quotes by author, title and page number for easy citation later.
Small note: did you know that the late, lamented Madeleine L'Engle titled a book based on the Muggeridge quotation? "A Severed Wasp," in which she explores the double entendre in "wasp" (taken as an acronym!). It's a great novel.
I renamed my Apple Note once called Quotes to My Commonplace Book. I can use the search function and it’s far from perfect. I was also so encouraged when I learned about Commonplace “books.”
Here’s one: “What sort of freak then is man! How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, repository of truth, sink of doubt and error, glory and refuse of the universe! Who will unravel such a tangle? What then will become of you, man, seeking to discover your true condition through natural reason? … Be silent… Learn that man infinitely transcends man.”
(Blaise Pascal’ Pensees, as quoted by Hans Urs Von Balthasar; The Von Balthasar Reader: “The Miracle of Human Existence”
The Malcolm Muggeridge quote. (Yes) The "leaving the literary self behind" reference. (Yes) It is hard for me to stop when I gather and review quotes from my literary teachers. I thoroughly enjoyed these you have shared, as well as hearing how you keep quotes. Mine are in various journals, and a few in the front of my Bible. I like the thought of organizing them in one location. One I've recorded: "God did not give the Bible so we could master Him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it." (S McK). "The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity." (Dallas Willard)
I use Joplin, an open source app similar to Evernote. It’s free with unlimited entries, and can be organized into separate “Notebooks” (files). I’ve got a Notebook for Quotes and a Notebook for Illustrations and a Notebook for a book idea I’m working on. I can add multiple Tags to each entry, like “Funny” or “Syncretism” or “Rome.” This makes searching for anecdotes and quotes on a particular topic quite easy. I always document my quotes by author, title and page number for easy citation later.
Thank you
Great quotations from the bio of Orwell!
Small note: did you know that the late, lamented Madeleine L'Engle titled a book based on the Muggeridge quotation? "A Severed Wasp," in which she explores the double entendre in "wasp" (taken as an acronym!). It's a great novel.
Apple’s “Notes” has become my repository for quotes and my thoughts on different subjects I have been reading.
I renamed my Apple Note once called Quotes to My Commonplace Book. I can use the search function and it’s far from perfect. I was also so encouraged when I learned about Commonplace “books.”
She doesn’t refer to a commonplace book but Emily P. Freeman has a podcast episode about how she saves quotes. https://emilypfreeman.com/podcast/216/
Thanks for that recommendation.
Never thought about this before.
For better, or worse, I depend on Google to find quotations I’ve read, liked, and lost.
Here’s one: “What sort of freak then is man! How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, repository of truth, sink of doubt and error, glory and refuse of the universe! Who will unravel such a tangle? What then will become of you, man, seeking to discover your true condition through natural reason? … Be silent… Learn that man infinitely transcends man.”
(Blaise Pascal’ Pensees, as quoted by Hans Urs Von Balthasar; The Von Balthasar Reader: “The Miracle of Human Existence”
So good!
The Malcolm Muggeridge quote. (Yes) The "leaving the literary self behind" reference. (Yes) It is hard for me to stop when I gather and review quotes from my literary teachers. I thoroughly enjoyed these you have shared, as well as hearing how you keep quotes. Mine are in various journals, and a few in the front of my Bible. I like the thought of organizing them in one location. One I've recorded: "God did not give the Bible so we could master Him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it." (S McK). "The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity." (Dallas Willard)