\[caption id="attachment\_148" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Moleskine"\][](http://openpluto.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Red.png)\[/caption\] **commonplace book** —n a notebook in which quotations, poems, remarks, etc, that catch the owner's attention are entered From Wikipedia[Ø](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book): _"Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests."_  Also checkout H.P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book[Ø](http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/07/h-p-lovecrafts-commonplace-book/) which was a jumbled piled of text for possible use in future fiction.