One option the New York Times didn’t mention in their piece about keeping a digital commonplace book: doing it on your own website.

@kimberlyhirsh I was first introduced to Commonplace book by author Ryan Holiday. I'm still not sure how to implement it and retrieve information that I might need in future?

@ridwan I tend to use my own app, Notenik, for this sort of thing.

@ridwan This is one of the reasons a website works well. Between tags, categories, and full-text search, most blogging platforms should make it easier for you to find stuff than it would be on paper.

@kimberlyhirsh You are right. I think tagging is better than using notebooks in Evernote.

@ridwan This is true. An iOS version is almost in the works though. And it's possible to edit your Notes using any text editor on any platform, and sync them using iCloud or Dropbox. (Which is not really helpful if you're a Windows or Linux user and so have no reason to use a Mac at all....)