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Jeff Kreh, PhD's avatar

Jefferson’s commonplace journal was, if Adams’s commonplace journals are any indication, a common practice among the Founding Generation … at least those on par with Jefferson and Adams.

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Christine Norvell's avatar

Most definitely. I've always wondered why Jefferson's are mentioned most.

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Jeff Kreh, PhD's avatar

Me, too. To be fair, he's the sexy president and a lot of historians find him Uber fascinating. Washington kept a commonplace book, too. If you've ever seen advertisements for the book of etiquette that Washington "wrote" during his youth, bear in mind he translated those points from his French lessons...

What type of journal or journaling system do you find most helpful/useful? I'm partial to bullet journals.

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Christine Norvell's avatar

Old-fashioned composition notebooks. Their larger size is easier for me to write in.

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Christine Norvell's avatar

Jefferson link is now repaired!

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