I’d love to start this habit as I want to start taking what I read a bit more seriously, have a place to transcribe quotes/passages that I love without writing in some of my nicer hardcovers, etc. and just making collections of thoughts on my reading, opening up texts a little more than a quick skimming read would otherwise.
All of the resources I’m finding on this are cutesy bullet journal moodboards for yearly reading tracking and two paragraph book reviews and it isn’t what I want to do with mine.
Do any of yall keep a journal? What does it look like, what is your process?
by BrennusRex
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I don’t have a dedicated book journal, but I tend to write about whatever I finish on a page on my journal anyway. Sometimes you will flip back and see my daily life or plans, todo lists, goals and whatnot, sometimes it will be writings, and sometimes a review on a book, themes it related to me or some quotes I liked.
There’s not really an organisation to it, but I feel like keeping everything in one notebook helps me not abandon it down the road. I learned fairly early on that the whole cute, overly organised, a print or sticker each page, calligraphy quotes were only for social media and that I just do whatever works the best in the long run.
If you’re interested in a digital version I use the journal function in storygraph for this. When you click ‘track progress’ on a book you can add your page number and a personal note. Once you’ve finished a book and want to go back to look at what you highlighted/wrote just click the 3 dots next to the reading status and select view journal entries.
Google “commonplace book”. There are a lot of people who do this in many different ways. Some use traditional journals, others use index cards, some are doing it digitally using Roam. Do some investigating and see what appeals to you.