Keep what you read.
Commonplace collects what you highlight in books, articles and PDFs, keeps your own notes beside each passage, and brings a passage back when it’s useful to what you’re writing now.
Every highlight becomes a note
When you highlight a line, Commonplace saves it with the book, page and date. Write a thought beside it and the two stay together — in search, in links, and when you export.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Durant paraphrasing Aristotle, not Aristotle. Same idea as Clear’s “every action is a vote” — link them.
Passages find each other
As you write, Commonplace shows highlights from other books that say something close. Durant and James Clear, two shelves and ninety years apart, end up one click from each other.
Old passages come back
Each morning you get five passages you saved months or years ago, chosen for what you’ve been writing about lately. Reread one, add a thought, or send it back to the shelf.
Your library stays yours
Highlights and notes are Markdown files in a folder you choose. Commonplace works offline and doesn’t need an account.
Pricing
- Free
- Everything, on one device, for as many books as you read.
- $5 a month
- Sync across your phone, tablet and computers, end-to-end encrypted.