A commonplace book is simply a collection of notes / things you find interesting, useful or need to comeback to in the nearest future.
Think an organised form of screenshots you take of things you want to remember, things you find interesting, useful or just want to keep for future reference but instead of screenshots on your phone, they're mostly short notes you make in a physical note book or digital note app.
This doesn't have to be on a serious matter or school related. It also isn't a journal, log or digital-zettelkasten.
I consider my digital garden a digital commonplace books because I capture a lot of interesting things in it. All the quotes that I find and would like to use for any of my essays, bookmarks of articles I find interesting, links to websites that I like or enjoy checking, ideas and thoughts that I cultivate after reading a book or an essay, excerpts from books and essays, wish lists, bucket lists, all can be found within this website.
I built a separate app called braindump to act as my second brain for finished works. I think I'll actually start making use of it much later, probably when I start my masters program or when I have a good number of essays and topics that are publishable.
I update the Content of my website using Obsidian. I'm still trying to figure out how obsidian works on mobile. I might end up using it on my iPad instead. Either way, I chose Obsidian because it is supposed to help me carry my digital commonplace book around on all my devices so that at any point in time, I can be able to make updates to it and publish if need be.
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