Open Commonplace lets you capture key takeaways and reflections from books and share them with a community. It focuses on authentic reader notes rather than AI summaries, creating a living repository of practical wisdom. Search for books, publish highlights and chapter insights, and browse others’ notes to discover ideas worth applying. The platform helps you learn from real experiences and build your own public or personal commonplace of reading insights
AI have really generalized the knowledge, to the extent that things are really there, at the tip of your finger, when you need them, however you need them. While people like Elon Musk would love to enjoy the "abundance", as a Zen believer, I believe that the books are still better. But how many books can you really read in a unit time?
Not much! So I built Open Commonplace. It is the commonplace book built by the community, and for the community. Key Takeaways (and different notes) from the different books are here to be read by anyone. And you can post them too.