Commonplace

About Commonplace

John Locke kept a commonplace book for twenty-five years before publishing, in 1685, the method he'd developed to make it usable: an indexing system for retrieving any passage by topic without re-reading the whole notebook. That was manual labor then. Commonplace automates it now. Your clippings are already scattered—years of Kindle highlights, Kobo annotations, or Logos clippings, each locked inside its own platform and undiscoverable. Commonplace imports all of it and tags every clipping by topic automatically, so an insight you underlined five years ago is still usable today. Import & Review Commonplace imports directly from the PDF exports generated by Kindle, Kobo, and Logos—with step-by-step instructions for retrieving each export from its source app. Before anything is added to your library, review every extracted clipping and swipe to keep or reject it, so your commonplace book stays exactly as curated as you want it. Automatic Topic Tagging Every clipping is analyzed and tagged by topic automatically, using your choice of Glaze AI or a local Ollama model. Correct or refine tags anytime, and merge overlapping topics into one. Browse - See every book in a cover grid, with covers extracted directly from your imports. You may also upload your own covers. - Sort your library by title, author, or most recently added. - Browse clippings by topic, or filter clippings within a single book or a single author by topic. - Browse every author across your entire library Find Anything, Instantly Search your entire commonplace book by keyword, topic tag, author, or book title. Share & Export Share any clipping through the macOS share sheet, or export clippings from a book, author, or topic—tags intact—as a CSV file. Rediscover Your homepage shuffles through your entire commonplace book, weighted toward the clippings you haven't revisited in the longest time—so nothing you've ever kept quietly collects dust. It's the difference between a filing cabinet and a living conversation with what you've already read. Your Stats A dedicated stats page gives you the full picture: total clippings, books, and topics, clippings added this year, your most-clipped book, your most-clipped topic, your most-clipped author, and a visual record of your clipping activity over time.