commonplace book

I have a commonplace-book for facts, and another for poetry.

"I have my trade, a lame leg and the marks of smallpox—and I never was good-looking, anyway," he wrote in his commonplace-book.

She has evidently just taken up this study; her exercises show the same thoroughness she exhibited in her German commonplace-book.

I did this in thirty pages of closely written matter, of which a pressed copy remains in my commonplace-book.