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Commonplace book — printable pages (set of 24)
Plain rules, generous margins, page numbers in the gutter. Print double-sided on a heavier stock and bind with whatever's at hand.
Resources
A small reading list — links, PDFs, and articles I find myself sending to people often enough to keep public.
Downloads
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Em-dash, en-dash, hyphen — a printable cheatsheet
The three rules I never get wrong twice, set on a single page, with examples in the margin.
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Reading list (annotated template)
The page I print at the start of every quarter. Twelve slots, three columns: title, why, finished. Half the slots empty by design.
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iA Writer keyboard shortcuts (printable cheatsheet)
Tape this to the wall above the desk. The mac and Windows shortcuts side by side, set in the same typeface as the editor itself.
Elsewhere
Sites
Edward Tufte's website
Type, layout, data, sprezzatura. The forum threads are still some of the best design writing online.
The Marginalian
Maria Popova's quiet encyclopedia of the considered life. The closest contemporary kin to what I'm attempting here.
The Paris Review — Writers at Work
Decades of writers explaining how the sausage gets made. Free, archived, occasionally life-altering.
The Public Domain Review
Archival warmth without preciousness. A reliable cure for whatever was on the front page.