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Jillian Hess

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teacher, writer, reader, and author of How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information (OUP 2022) and Noted (Substack)
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P.S. I Indexed 70 Notebooks. Here's What I Learned.

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By Jillian Hess
| Noted (Newsletter)
There comes a point when one’s trail of notes exceeds one’s ability to remember them. I am well past that point. I’ve amassed more than seventy notebooks over the past two decades. But I’ve never sat down to make them searchable…until now. Ever since I wrote about Emerson’s tips for finding notes two years ago, I’ve wanted to try his indexing system. So I set myself the task of going through my notebooks from graduate school onward (about 21 years’ worth of notes).
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Note-Taking Rituals

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By Jillian Hess
| Noted (Newsletter)
I’ve been thinking a lot about rituals lately—prompted partly by Austin Kleon’s guest post last Monday and the conclusion of the May Commonplace Book Club (CBC). Years ago, I developed a morning ritual: I sit by a window with morning coffee, cat curled in my lap while I pick a quote to write out in my commonplace book. First, I copied quotes from Seneca’s letters, then Mary Oliver’s essays and poetry, then literary criticism.
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How Austin Kleon Keeps it Fun and Weird

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By Jillian Hess, Austin Kleon
| Noted (Newsletter)
"Because I am insane, I keep four different notebooks" It’s my birthday this week! For the past few years, I’ve shared a favorite creator from my youth to celebrate. This year, I’m sharing a favorite creator who has just written about child-like things—in the most ebullient way.
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